On Wednesday morning it was 725; on Wednesday night it was 477; on Thursday night it was down to 336; by Friday it was 239; Sunday it was 221; and by today it was down to only 204. Are we talking about the Dow Jones index falling on Wall Street? No, we are talking about the incredible shrinking margin of Senator Norm Coleman’s victory over Al Franken.
Now there is no question that there are usually some slight changes in the vote totals in counties throughout a state as election officials check the final tallies and vote counts that were accumulated by counties on Election Day. But when the vote totals in an election like the Coleman-Franken race are almost evenly split, one would expect that any subsequent adjustments being made would tend to follow the same pattern unless there is something funny (or potentially illegal going on).
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