Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Also we may be feeling a whole lot less jubilant on Saturday.
'Though, with any luck, you won't have to wait in a line for 6 hours to cast your vote.
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Minnesota was ludicrously close. No-one's projecting a winner, but with 100% of votes in, Coleman is ahead of Franken by fewer than 500 votes.
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I wonder if the discussion on the NZ election will be as massive. Is this one of PA's longest topic threads, I wonder?
But only after 7pm :-)
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__Fortunately the Dems don’t have 60 seats in the Senate so with the filibuster rule there is a brake on their more radical aspirations__
But the Dems do have the numbers to abolish the filibuster rule -- though that is a trigger they might not want to pull, considering you never know when it could come in useful.
Now they don't.
Changes to senate rules require a 2/3rd majority.
They have the "nuclear option", but they can't change the rule.
Standing Rules of the Senate
RULE XXII
PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS:... at any time a motion signed by sixteen Senators, to bring to a close the debate upon any measure, motion, other matter pending before the Senate, or the unfinished business, is presented to the Senate, the Presiding Officer, or ... shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by a yea-and-nay vote the question:
"Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be brought to a close?" And if that question shall be decided in the affirmative by three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn -- except on a measure or motion to amend the Senate rules, in which case the necessary affirmative vote shall be two-thirds of the Senators present and voting -- then said measure, motion, or other matter pending before the Senate, or the unfinished business, shall be the unfinished business to the exclusion of all other business until disposed of.
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Gotta say that a gay marriage ban in California is looking likely.
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The Coleman/Franken race is just see-sawing back and forth.
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Franken is 250 votes behind, and Karl Rove himself just said he''l take it when the blue districts come in.
Well it certainly got out higher than that, but it seems as though your friend Karl Rove may come through for you...
96% of precincts reporting and Franken is up by 1100.
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Mark 60 votes will break a fillibuster (see senate rule XXII).
However, it seems pretty damn unlikely to me that the Republicans will stay on 40. With 97% of precincts reporting in Georgia, the Republian is 5 points ahead. I've no idea why they haven't called it ... busy with other stuff, maybe?
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Breaking news on TV1:
Joe Lieberman to be the Vice-President!
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Listening to McCain's call for untiy and his obviousness awareness of the possible reaction to a black man being elected president, I was reminded of attitude of Robert E. Lee after the civil war.
His attitude before the war was okay too - opposing both slavery and secession.