Al Franken has a decent chance of passing Sen. Norm Coleman during the upcoming recount, thinks Professor Michael C. Herron of Dartmouth College.
“If someone put a gun to my head and said, ‘You have to bet,’ I would bet Franken,” Herron stated, “It won’t be a wipe-out. Two hundred votes is effectively tied. We just know that, in this case, Democrats tend to [screw up their ballots] more often [than Republicans].”
Well, we’re not pointing any guns– but on the subject of Democrats– we aren’t quite sure where that “sucky ballot skill bias” comes into play. HOWEVER (however), had the voting system in CO been like it was in Minnesota (where voters had to fill in the circle next to the name of the candidate they supported, as opposed to mark an “x” through it, or cross out names of the people they didn’t like, or circle the name of the one they did, or doodle on the parts of the ballot they didn’t really care about), we would have had SAT flashbacks and gone rogue too.
