tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/11/2008
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The recount in the Minnesota Senate race hasn't even begun yet, but already the GOP is working to delegitimize it in advance, by smearing the man who will run it as a partisan Democrat.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has been distributing to reporters a three-page ...
online.wsj.com - 11/12/2008
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You'd think Democrats would be content with last
week's electoral rout. But judging from the odd doings...
in Minnesota, some in their party wouldn't mind adding to their jackpot by stealing a Senate seat for left-wing joker Al Franken. When Minnesotans ...
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Mischief in Minnesota?
minnesotarecount.com - 11/11/2008
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From The New York Times’s The Caucus Blog
: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who dipped into...
his own deep pockets to help finance his presidential bid, has directed $5,000 from his “Free and Strong America” political action committee to aid the ...
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Minnesota Recount
politico.com - 11/12/2008
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There's Only One Katherine Harris
Talking Points Memo —
GOP already trying to tar Minnesota secretary of state with political smears before Coleman-Franken recount even begins.
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The next phase begins in Minnesota
Political Animal —
THE NEXT PHASE BEGINS IN MINNESOTA.... With the razor-thin margin in the Senate race in Minnesota, the first phase in the Republican strategy was to argue that a statewide recount was a waste of time. It was unpersuasive. So, the second phase is getting underway . The recount in the Minnesota Senate race hasn't even begun yet, but already the GOP is working to delegitimize it in advance, by smearing the man who will run it as a partisan Democrat. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has been distributing to reporters a three-page "backgrounder" that attacks ...
NRSC joins the propaganda efforts in Minnesota
HorsesAss.Org —
... In Minnesota, it looks like Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is going to be the Republican’s first target. TPM Muckraker has obtained a three-page “backgrounder” put out by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). ...
Coleman, cornered, pounds on the table
Firedoglake —
... Today’s New York Post, calling our electoral drama a “Minny Series,” says that Republicans are dubbing Secretary of State Mark Ritchie “a Democratic version of Katherine Harris, the ex-Republican secretary of state in Florida, whose actions, some believe, helped George Bush win the 2000 presidential election.” (That same epithet was hurled at Ritchie’s predecessor, Republican Mary Kiffmeyer, on more than a few occasions.) Ritchie will likely be in the crosshairs for some time: The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee has released talking points targeting ...
Eric Hananoki: Coleman's Recount Shenanigans
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie as a partisan Democrat who could tilt the election to Franken. Coleman's allies at the National Republican Senatorial Committee even baselessly suggested that Ritchie has ties to communists. Ritchie's sin? The Communist Party USA ...
Franken-Coleman Recount Update, 12/29/08: Meet Mark Ritchie
Firedoglake —
... efforts to encourage Native Americans to vote. The disagreements were so heated that she has been linked to efforts to have Heffelfinger fired from his USA job (he left before they could fire him). Ever since Kiffy lost to Ritchie, enraged RPM (Republican Party of Minnesota) partisans have been looking to trash him in revenge, and so a steady stream of anti-Ritchie billets doux keeps bubbling up from various conservative smear shops -- a smear campaign that has escalated since the start of the recount.
If one can be judged ...
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In Minnesota Recount, Both Candidates are Losers
fivethirtyeight.com 11/20/2008 — And I mean literally. The Minnesota recount has started, with the results being updated in semi-real time on the Star Tribune's webpage . Thus far, with about 4 percent of the ballots recounted, Coleman has lost 30 votes and Franken has lost 39. I'm ...
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Recount could leave Minnesota one senator short in January
twincities.com 12/24/2008 — It is increasingly likely the new U.S. Senate will start work in 2009 with just one member from Minnesota. Unless something changes in the ongoing recount, there won't be a newly elected senator from the state in place in Washington. Republican Sen. ...
Minnesota recount goes on . . . and on . . .
miamiherald.com 12/24/2008 — At a recent hearing over the Senate vote recount in his state, Justice Paul Anderson of the Minnesota Supreme Court apparently took umbrage when an attorney suggested that the prolonged dispute was turning into a debacle along the lines of the Florida ...
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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