Reply #59: A new poll posted in another thread shows that 64% want Coleman to concede now.

[scarletwoman]

See Minnesota Poll: Most want Coleman to call it quits

I don't think there'll be any patience for more game playing.

Minnesota has historically been a Democratic state; trending a bit more Republican in recent years, but that seems to be reversing. The only reason we ended up with Pawlenty (and Michelle Bachman, too, btw) is because we keep getting Independence Party candidates showing up on our ballots acting as spoilers. Pawlenty got way less than 50% of the votes, but in a three-way race he had the plurality.

That was part of the problem with the Senate race, too. Both Franken and Coleman each ended up with 42%, while the Independence party candidate got the rest. It made it more likely that there'd be no clear majority winner.

A lot of people have been pushing for IRV due to this continuing third party problem, but of course the Repugs are fighting against it because they always end up having the advantage in these three-way races. It's a crappy paradox -- more people vote AGAINST the Repugs than vote FOR them, but they end up winning because the non-Repug vote is split. :(

sw