Normy Coleman wants a new election

This is a new one to me.

Norm Coleman, he who has been watching himself lose the Minnesota election for the past few months, has done just about everything he could think of to have the election pushed his way. Throw out these ballots, count those, invalidate these, don’t say the election’s over until we get those. I have to say, though, the new strategy of “throw the whole thing out and have another election” is pretty novel.

Speaking during a break in the trial of his election lawsuit, the Republican said he’s not sure how the court can certify a winner when “the number of illegal ballots may far exceed the difference between the candidates.” Coleman’s comments came after his lawyers wrote to the judges a day earlier to raise the possibility of setting aside the election.

“In the end, I do think that’s something that folks will have to think about,” he said.

Yeah, sure. That’s totally going to happen. After the nation had a few thousand elections settled that day, Minnesota just happens to have the one, which by pure coincidence is a lynchpin for the Senate against a man Republicans just hate, that managed to buck all the trends and land itself in a jimmy. Please.

Harry Reid seems to agree with me.

Said Reid spokesman Jim Manley, in an e-mail to TPM: “Just because Mr. Coleman is not happy with the results of the election/recount doesn’t mean he gets to schedule another one.”