I find it interesting that two of the three Senate races yet to be determined have tremendous emotional valence for Democrats, and the third is emblematic of so much that is wrong with the Republican Party and Alaska.
We're down to three undetermined Senate races: Georgia, Minnesota, and Alaska. All are close. In Georgia, the failure of either candidate to reach 50% means a run-off. In Minnesota, just over 200 votes separate Norm Coleman from Al Franken, which triggers an automatic recount. And in Alaska, voting irregularities and oddities have led to convicted felon Ted Stevens being in the lead. I don't know what will happen in Alaska, whether the final tally will leave Stevens in office, but if he does win people are speculating that Sarah Palin might run for his seat, and being that Alaska keeps electing Republican morons and criminals, that's entirely possible.
But the two emotional races are those in Georgia and Minnesota. Six years ago, the horrid Saxby Chambliss defeated triple amputee war hero Max Cleland by running ads against him viciously and falsely tying him to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Democrats have despised the sleazy Chambliss ever since and would love to kick him out of the Senate and replace him with a Democrat. Georgia is a red state, though, and this may not happen. But it sure would feel good.
In Minnesota, Norm Coleman took Paul Wellstone's Senate seat after Wellstone, with his wife and daughter, tragically died in a plane crash just before the 2002 election. The Republicans then attacked Dems for having a "political" memorial service, and Coleman rode that falsehood all the way to victory. I'd love to see his disgusting ass out of the Senate as well.
If there is justice in this world, perhaps the outcome of these elections will give Democrats more cause to celebrate. But then if there were justice in the world, we wouldn't have had to endure eight years of George W. Bush, with at least one and possibly two stolen elections.
