townhall.com - 11/13/2008
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Al Franken's campaign has been telling reporters that any vote for Barack Obama should count for a vote for Franken in his now-deadlocked recount with incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman.Franken calls it an...
foxnews.com - 11/10/2008
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foxnews.com —
Monday, November 10, 2008 By John R. Lott
Jr. Minnesota is becoming to 2008 politics what Florida...
was in 2000 or Washington State in 2006 -- a real mess. The outcome will determine whether Democrats get 58 members of the U.S. Senate, giving them an ...
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Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud - Opinion
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/12/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Although it might seem like we've already covered
all the ground there is to cover on the...
Minnesota recount process, we may be able to draw some additional lessons from Florida's recount experience in 2000. In 2001, the National Opinion Research ...
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Minnesota Recount: Number of Discrepancies May Be Low
powerlineblog.com - 11/14/2008
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powerlineblog.com —
The Al Franken is using a series of
lawsuits to try to bully the ex-comedian's way into...
the United States Senate. So far, though, they aren't going too well. Franken has demanded that Minnesota counties give him lists of would-be voters whose ...
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Franken’s Undervote Strategy
California Conservative —
It’s now apparent that Al Franken will pursue an undervote strategy to win the election. Such a strategy should be immediately rejected for several reasons. Amanda Carpenter’s Townhall column exposes that myth:
Al Franken’s campaign has been telling reporters that any vote for Barack Obama should count for a vote for Franken in his now-deadlocked recount with incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman. Franken calls it an “undervote,” meaning if a ballot is checked for Obama, but is “mistakingly” left blank for the Senate race, it should go to him. He may want to abandon this logic. The ...
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townhall.com 12/19/2008 — Norm Coleman doesn't want anyone to get too worried about the lead Al Franken has over him right now in the contentious recount for Minnesota's Senate seat. "By the time you receive this email, the temporary lead that...
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redstate.com 11/20/2008 —
We all know about ACORN right? The group masterfully steals
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fivethirtyeight.com 11/10/2008 — Votes counted in Minnesota's senate race: 2,833,089 Votes separating Norm Coleman and Al Franken: 221 Determining a candidate's odds of winning a recount is a function of three parameters. The first parameter is the margin separating the leading and ...
Stealing Minnesota: The Franken Undervote Lie
redstate.com 11/14/2008 —
I spent six years as an elections lawyer. I handled
a lot of very wacked election canvasses
and recounts. One thing they all had in common: when new votes were
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a few for the ...
Franken's Good Day Shifts Odds on Recount
fivethirtyeight.com 12/3/2008 — Since our post earlier this afternoon suggesting that Norm Coleman was the slight favorite to win the re-count , Al Franken has gotten three pieces of good news which cloud the picture and may tilt the probabilities in his favor. The first is that, ...
Al Franken's Minnesota
online.wsj.com 11/21/2008 — Al Franken's campaign takes exception to our recent description of the curious goings-on in Minnesota's Senate vote count . We're delighted to hear his growing vote total is all routine. But who needs to worry about votes discovered in a car when the ...
Al Franken's last resort...
powerlineblog.com 12/2/2008 — is an attack on the result based on the rejection of certain absentee ballots from the tabulation. Franken now anticipates losing the recount. And Franken stands ready to call on the Senate to reject the result he anticipates in the recount.
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Al Franken: The Vote Count is Meaningless
redstate.com 11/20/2008 —
Al Franken's team seems awfully dismissive of the vote that
appears to have resulted in the re-election of Norm Coleman to the
U.S. Senate. From Roll
Call (subscription only):
The Coleman campaign maintains the Senator won the election by
215 ...
Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes
fivethirtyeight.com 11/23/2008 — As we wrote yesterday evening, the ever-increasing number of challenged ballots in Minnesota is making it more and more difficult to determine the extent to which Al Franken is in fact gaining ground in the state's recount process. An analysis of ...
Schumer: 60 'possible but unlikely' —
First Read 11/13/2008
From NBC's Abby LivingstonIn his mission to crush a GOP filibuster, DSCC Chairman Chuck Schumer feels the chance of 60 Democratic senators this cycle is “possible, but unlikely.”
Briefing reporters this afternoon, the New York senator gave the ...
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