Election Update

Minnesota first earlier, so now, let's lead with Illinois.ABC News: Burris Credential Rejected by Senate Parliamentarian, which is no surprise.

Somehow, I think that Reid will get run over, like he always does.

In the meantime, the Minnesota Canvassing Board has certified Franken the winner, by 225 votes.

Note that state law precludes the issue of an election certificate can be issued for at least a week, and the Coleman camp says that it intends to mount a challenge in the courts.

That being said, the Minnesota Supreme Court has just rejected a challenge by Coleman, which claims that 654 ballots were improperly excluded.

I'm not surprised. They already ruled on this, and Coleman would need to pick up 225 votes, or 34.4% of the total, which would mean that he would need to outpoll Franken by over 2:1, which is simply not in the realm of reality.

The Senate Democrats want to seat Franken, at least provisionally, but Cornyn and the rest of the 'Phants are promising a filibuster.

Finally, here is a little bonus feature for my reader(s), the future Senator for Minnesota, in tights, doing Mick Jagger : (H/T Josh Marshall)