VA-Sen, MT-Sen: Allen to quit recount challenge?

Daily Kos Staff

Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 11:49 AM PST

2006/11/08 · 11:49

Rumors are flying fast and furious in DC that Allen may quit the race and give up on a recount challenge. And Allen's advisor Ed Gillespie, at a press conference, refused to say there would be a recount, instead pinning their hopes on the final canvas of votes.

The guy must be devastated. He didn't want to be a Senator. He was building a ground operation in Iowa and New Hampshire. He was telling Iowans that he was bored of being a Senator and wished he was born in Iowa instead.

He thought he was going to be president.

And suddenly, he loses a race for a seat that he didn't want in the first place? And it's not as if winning a long-shot recount would help him with his now-dead presidential ambitions. So the rumors may have some truth.

As for Montana, a recount is possible if the total is within 1/4 of one percent. There were 404,084 votes. 1/4 of one percent of that would be 1,010 votes. Right now, Tester has a 2, 848 vote lead. That one is over. There won't be a recount in Montana, even though Burns still refuses to concede.

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