tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/30/2009
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The Coleman campaign just had some fun with the Franken campaign, who have accused them of reversing all their positions on counting votes. The Coleman reply: So have you!
The Franken camp spent yesterday and this morning reading over the vast number of examples where the Coleman campaign ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/27/2009
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We have seen the best thing that Norm
Coleman's legal team has done so far in this...
election trial -- and it ain't pretty. This afternoon the Coleman team was bringing in rejected absentee voters to show that their ballots were improperly tossed. ...
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Coleman's Supposedly Friendly Witnesses Backfire
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/2/2009
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The Coleman team appears to be laying out
a continued strategy of casting doubt on the legitimacy...
of the Minnesota election result by pointing to a fundamental underlying idea of this dispute: The margin of error is simply too big in a race this ...
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Is Coleman Aiming for a Do-Over Election?
mnpublius.com - 1/28/2009
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Today, Team Coleman’s blogger at MDE, Ryan Flynn,
posted a tidbit today: “THOUSANDS OF HITS CRASH COLEMAN WEBSITE” ST...
PAUL – Information recently added to the Coleman for Senate website, whereby people can find out which Minnesota ...
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Team Coleman Fakes Website Crash
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'Slow-Motion Comedy Show': Days 4 & 5 of the Coleman/Franken U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
The BRAD BLOG —
... Flip-Flop, Flip-Flop, Flip-Flop
On Wednesday, we quoted Coleman's attorney, Ben Ginsberg --- he of the successful Bush v. Gore FL 2000 strategy of fighting to not count votes, due to cherry-picked Equal Protection arguments --- as admitting that "both campaigns have taken positions in the past that are not entirely consistent with what they are now."
He claimed, at the time, "that is frankly irrelevant." But Franken's team argued yesterday that it isn't.
His attorneys have been arguing that the Coleman team, has been arguing ...
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/24/2009 — The Minnesota election court handed down two rulings tonight, one of which should be regarded as an unambiguous defeat for Norm Coleman -- and the other should probably leave Al Franken cautiously optimistic.
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Franken-Coleman Update: Oh. My. Goodness.
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com 2/27/2009 — This was supposed to be the last day of testimony by Coleman's witnesses -- and it may well end in sanctions for Joe Friedberg, Tony Trimble, and a few other members of the Coleman legal team. Why? Because it turns out that, contrary to her ...
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Franken Senate Victory Projected
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/18/2008 — Don't look now, but it looks like Al Franken may win the Minnesota Senate race.
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article.nationalreview.com 2/4/2009 — D emocrats want to declare an end to the Minnesota Senate race, with Al Franken the winner and Norm Coleman the sore loser. In an appearance with Franken last week, Harry Reid averred: The race in Minnesota is over with. . . . There s no way the ...
Court Gives Coleman Access to 4,800 More Ballots
briefingroom.thehill.com 2/3/2009 — Sen. Norm Coleman (R) received a qualified victory from the three-judge panel hearing his challenge to Democrat Al Franken's 225-vote lead in the Minnesota Senate race, granting him access to thousands of absentee ballots to help press his case that ...
Voters testify on day two of MN Senate trial —
CNN Political Ticker 1/28/2009
Minnesota voters who say their absentee ballots were rejected for no good reason took the witness stand Tuesday in the second day of the trial requested by former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) — Minnesota voters who ...
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