Norm, we have to go back -- to the future!

by Dave Weigel

Ed Barnes has the lede of the day, if only by accident: 

The chairman of the Minnesota Republican
Party called Thursday for a massive, eleventh-hour investigation into
allegations of illegal voting by felons in the state's bitterly
contested 2008 Senate election.

OK, somebody help me with this. "Eleventh-hour" means, basically, in the final stages of something. The shot clock is ticking down. The egg timer is about to ring. The video is almost done buffering. And so on. So how do...