startribune.com - 1/20/2009
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In a major shift in strategy, the GOP camp wants all 12,000 ballots reviewed.
fivethirtyeight.com - 1/17/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
And maybe, Norm Coleman is hoping, elections in Minnesota.
Call it a hunch, but a couple of recent articles suggest that Norm Coleman's goal might not be to pull ahead of Al Franken outright, but ...
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Is Coleman's Goal a Do-Over?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/23/2009
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At a pre-trial hearing in the Minnesota election
lawsuit just now, Franken attorney Kevin Hamilton made a
striking accusation: That the Coleman campaign has been doctoring evidence. As an example, Hamilton showed two photocopies of a rejected ...
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Franken Legal Team: Coleman Is Doctoring Evidence
politico.com - 1/22/2009
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politico.com —
Last session's senior senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman,
still battling Al Franken to be seated in the
Senate, has taken a paid job as a consultant to the Republican Jewish Coalition, which harshly attacked Obama last fall, its executive director, ...
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Coleman takes a job
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Coleman Going After All Rejected Absentee Ballots
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... In the clearest sign yet that he's shifted strategies since falling behind in the recount, Coleman will push to have all 12,000 rejected absentee ballots reconsidered. ...
Coleman Seeks New Recount of Absentee Ballots
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
"In the clearest sign yet that he has dramatically shifted strategies
since falling behind in the U.S. Senate recount," Sen. Norm
Coleman's (R-MN) campaign said "that it will push to have all 12,000
absentee ballots rejected in the election reconsidered and to ensure
that those wrongly set aside are counted," the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. ...
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(CNN) — Al Franken spokesman Andy Barr confirmed Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has provided the Democratic Senate hopeful with tickets to the swearing-in ceremony today. Barr added Franken is "in the bleachers on the ...
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