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Downballot: Minn. recount, day 64

 

Published 1/7/2009 by Mark Murray at First Read

MINNESOTA: The recount saga rolls on, as Norm Coleman said he was filing a contest with the state. The Franken camp called the Republican's arguments the "same thin gruel." NEW YORK: The New York Times reports, "Even as Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo insisted he was staying out of the competition for New York’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat, a top Cuomo aide urged labor leaders and upstate officials to refrain from embracing Caroline Kennedy for the job, according to several people with direct...( read more ) (link)

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