thehill.com - 4/8/2009
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Norm Coleman has just made his appeal more difficult. Al Franken extended his lead in the Minnesota Senate race to 312 votes Tuesday, after about 350 improperly rejected absentee ballots were added to the ballot pool. The total is 87 more votes than Franken led by at the beginning of the day ...
Coleman/Franken Monday Roundup 3/30
njdc.org 3/30/2009 — Coleman/Franken Monday roundup:
Politico: “In Minnesota, it’s still November”
HuffPo: “What is Best for Coleman?”
Twin Cities: “Political Animal: A timeline to resolution of the Coleman-Franken U.S. Senate contest”
StarTribune: “Exec ...
The Importance of Being Franken
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 3/30/2009 — If you're a regular reader, you know that Eric Kleefeld's done a remarkable job tracking the ins and outs and absurdities and melodramatics of the court fight that may or may not settle the disputed election between Norm Coleman and Al Franken.
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In Minnesota
corner.nationalreview.com 3/31/2009 — The Minnesota court hearing the Franken-Coleman election case has issued its ruling -- it looks bad for Coleman.
BREAKING: MN ELECTION COURT ISSUES RULING IN COLEMAN/FRANKEN CONTEST
bradblog.com 4/1/2009 — Just in from St. Paul , the 3-judge panel in MN's U.S. Senate Election Contest have returned to issue a ruling...
In a potentially decisive ruling, a panel of three judges today ordered up to 400 new absentee ballots opened and counted, far fewer ...
A setback for Senator Coleman
powerlineblog.com 4/1/2009 — During the recount phase of Minnesota's Senate election, Senator Coleman lost his narrow lead to Al Franken. The tabulated vote following the election showed Senator Coleman with a lead of 215 votes out of nearly 3,000,000 votes cast. The narrow ...
Big Decision Ahead for Pawlenty
politicalwire.com 4/2/2009 — "The legal fight between Al Franken and Norm Coleman is headed to the desk of Gov. Tim Pawlenty -- a no-win predicament for a Minnesota Republican with his eye on a White House run in 2012," Politico reports.
If Franken's ahead after counting the ...
If Norm Coleman Makes a Federal Case of It, What Will Happen
acsblog.org 4/3/2009 —
By Richard L. Hasen , the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and author of the Election Law Blog .
Following an order issued earlier in the week by the three-judge court hearing the election ...
Coleman/Franken Monday Roundup 4/6
njdc.org 4/6/2009 — Coleman/Franken Monday roundup:
The Hill: Senate GOPs back Coleman all the way
Senate Republicans are backing their beleaguered colleague in Minnesota, saying former Sen. Norm Coleman should push his election case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Politico: Franken-Coleman gravy ...
Republicans Urging Coleman To Keep Fighting Attacked Gore Over Recount
huffingtonpost.com 4/6/2009 — The Senate race in Minnesota seems no closer to resolution than it did on election night. With Al Franken clinging to a 225 vote lead and Norm Coleman dealt a tough setback in state court last week, some of the highest ranking officials in the GOP ...
With Votes Counted, Franken Now Leads By 312 Votes
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 4/7/2009 — Minnesota has just finished counting the 351 previously-rejected ballots approved by the three-judge panel as having been legally cast and rejected in error. The numbers: Al Franken 198, Norm Coleman 111, Other 42.
This means that Al Franken's ...
Franken’s Lead Grows to 312 After Recount
njdc.org 4/7/2009 — Despite all Coleman’s efforts, Franken still received more votes in their race for U.S. Senate - in fact, Franken’s lead has increased. I have had numerous posts on this issue and today we followed the recount live, but hopefully there will not be the need for many more posts like ...
What happened in Minnesota
powerlineblog.com 4/8/2009 — Minnesota's excruciatingly close Senate election between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and former unfunny humorist Al Franken is in the final innings of the post-election proceedings. Franken is of course a left-liberal Democrat about whom I have ...
Say Goodnight, Norm. —
The Moderate Voice
I have to agree with Ramesh Ponnuru ; it’s time for Norm Coleman to give up his fight for the Senate seat here in Minnesota.
Now, I’m not a fan of Coleman, but I did vote for him because he was and is a better candidate than Al Franken. Franken comes accross as mean-spirited and ...
Time For Norm Coleman To Throw In The Towel, Take 23 —
DownWithTyranny!
Who's the bigger sore loser? As of yesterday the official number of votes by which Al Franken is now leading sore loser Norm Coleman in the "election" to Minnesota's second Senate seat has risen to 312 . That's right, after months of fighting and millions of dollars wasted in Coleman's ...
Note to Norm —
The Democratic Daily
Note to Norm Coleman… Give it up :
Democrat Al Franken yesterday increased his small lead over Republican Norm Coleman in the protracted dispute over the race for a U.S. Senate seat representing Minnesota, but it remains unclear when the five-month legal battle will end.
It’s ...
MN Senate: Franken Extends Lead Over Coleman to 312 —
Politics Daily
Star-Tribune Republican Norm Coleman's dim prospects for winning the U.S. Senate trial darkened today as several hundred disputed absentee ballots were finally counted and split strongly for his DFL opponent, Al Franken. Minutes after the ballots were opened for the first time, state elections ...
MN Election Update: Franken Gains —
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts
Via the Strib : Franken extends lead over Coleman
Democrat Al Franken today extended his lead over Republican Norm Coleman in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate election, after the counting of about 350 formerly rejected absentee ballots this morning.
Franken captured 198 of the ballots, while ...
Franken Extends Lead Over Coleman —
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Al Franken (D) extended his lead over Norm Coleman (D) in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, "following the counting of about 350 formerly rejected absentee ballots this morning by a three-judge panel," the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
"Unofficially, Franken took 198 of the ballots, while ...
MN Update: Franken Lead Grows —
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo
As lawsuits and vote counting continue in the Minnesota Senate race, Al Franken is gaining votes . Many believe that Norm Coleman isn't going to give up until every legal recourse has been exhausted -- not because he thinks he can win, but becuase the longer he can wrangle with Franken in the ...
BradBlog: Franken Wins —
Hoffmania!
Of course, we're expecting Norm " Franken Should Concede " Coleman to throw an appeal into the machine. Here's BradBlog's story : Author and former radio talk show host Al Franken, the Democratic
challenger for the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, will be the state's
next U.S. Senator, according ...
The Coleman-Franken spectacle continues —
PoliGazette
Will it ever end ?
The epic Senate recount battle between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken is turning out to be an incomparable gravy train, lining the pockets not just of the lawyers who are making a small fortune off the case, but also of groups ranging from the Republican ...
A brief Coleman-Franken legal primer —
News
Renowned legal expert Richard Hasen has a must-read for any Coleman-Franken junkies who don’t have law degrees.
Hasen basically walks us through what happens from here in the court case, which Republicans have recently suggested could take many months or years to resolve. At each step, he ...
MN GOP launches counter-petition for Coleman supporters —
News
The Coleman-Franken Senate race and Coleman-Franken court case has turned into the Coleman-Franken petition race.
The Minnesota Republican Party has launched a counter-petition to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s (DSCC) effort to urge Norm Coleman to back down from his challenge to ...
If At First You Don’t Succeed —
No Runny Eggs
Earlier this week, the three judge panel reviewing the Coleman/Franken contested case, issued a ruling that appears to have negative implications for Coleman, at least in this phase:
As a result, Harry Reid is looking again to seat Al Franken as Senator for Minnesota:
Upping the ante ...
Senator Franken, shortly —
The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings Jason Zengerle has a fine post up at The Plank today on just why it is that it's taking so long for Minnesota to name the winner of its 2008 Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman. It's not just that there was a recount, or that there were so many ...
The Franken-Coleman spin war —
First Read
From NBC's Mark Murray and Harry Enten In a conference call with reporters, Al Franken attorney Marc Elias said that after today's absentee ballot count in Minnesota -- in which Franken built on his 225-vote lead -- there is no doubt that the ...
Downballot: A decisive ruling? —
First Read
MINNESOTA: The Star Tribune: "In a potentially decisive ruling, a panel of three judges today ordered up to 400 new absentee ballots opened and counted, far fewer than Republican Norm Coleman had sought in his effort to overcome a lead by DFLer Al ...
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