In Senate, history could repeat itself for MN

From NBC's Carrie Dann The seemingly endless Minnesota recount, which could well be headed for a legal limbo that would drag into the New Year, has lawyers and reporters digging for answers about what, if anything, Senate Democrats could do to intervene in the contest between Al Franken and Norm Coleman . It turns out that there IS an example of a time when the United States Senate attempted to weigh in on a contested Senate race -- the closest one in history, in fact.  The bad news?  The result was a Capitol Hill debacle.   ...( read more ) (link)