Governor's Race Over, Emmer to Concede

[Zoeisright]

Source: 5 Eyewitness News

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned Republican Tom Emmer will concede the governor's race to Democrat Mark Dayton in a news conference tentatively scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in his hometown of Delano.

Three Republican party sources confirm that Emmer made the decision Tuesday afternoon.

His concession will come 36 days after election night when Emmer and Dayton went home separated by less than .5 percent.

Since then, a mandatory statewide recount didn't come anywhere close to Emmer erasing Dayton's nearly 9,000 vote lead.

Read more: http://ksax.com/article/stories/S1871786.shtml?cat=10230

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HOOORRAAAYYYY!!!!!

This is Minnesota, BTW.

[WhiteTara]

1. Good news! n/t

[Wickerman]

2. WOW

Glad to hear it. I so did not want to live through another Minnesota recount. The cold up here sucks enough without Republicans working harder than usual to fuck us over every other winter.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

3. Yay!!!!! It's so good to see good news tonight!

:applause:

[glinda]

4. Good news. I expect they are moving on to the next plan which is to

discredit Mark and plan spin and all the other crap that they do.

[jonthebru]

5. Yeee Haw, Wooo EEEE

[MineralMan]

6. Good news. He really had no choice. He lost.

Congratulations, Governor Dayton!

[myrna minx]

7. Finally some GOOD news.

Congratulations Governor Dayton.

[Odin2005]

8. WOOHOO!

[mvd]

9. Congrats, Gov. Dayton!

hooray for Minnesota, too. :bounce:

[4_TN_TITANS]

10. The Emmeroids are over!

[truthisfreedom]

11. That's a relief.

[No Elephants]

12. Wonder how much Emmer's obstinacy cost?