powerlineblog.com - 11/28/2008
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With the Thanksgiving holiday, there hasn't been much news in the Senate recount contest between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. The Minneapolis Star Tribune shows Coleman with a 282-vote lead, with 88 percent of ballots recounted. It seems clear at this point that Franken's hope of significant ...
briefingroom.thehill.com - 12/1/2008
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briefingroom.thehill.com —
Democrat Al Franken's campaign said Monday that as
many as 1,000 absentee ballots were improperly disqualified in
Minnesota's Senate race, and that it may appeal to courts or the U.S. Senate to order those ballots counted. "Wherever the numbers stand ...
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Franken May Ask Senate to Intervene in Minn. Recount
huffingtonpost.com - 12/3/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Aides to Al Franken's senatorial campaign announced on
Wednesday that, for the first time since the recount
began, they were actually ahead of Sen. Norm Coleman. Speaking on a conference call with reporters, Franken's chief counsel Marc Elias said ...
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Franken Ahead 22 Votes Now, Campaign Says
fivethirtyeight.com - 12/2/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
With in excess of 90 percent of Minnesota's
votes now having been recounted, our statistical models now
show Norm Coleman as the favorite to retain his senate seat, although with a high degree of uncertainty and without accounting the effects of ...
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Statistical Models Now Show Coleman as Slight Favorite
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dailykos.com 11/14/2008 — First, a reminder of what Norm Coleman was saying the day after the election, when he was leading by 725 votes: "Yesterday the voters spoke. We prevailed," Coleman said Wednesday at a news conference. He noted Franken could opt to waive the ...
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/2/2008 — In the last few days, Norm Coleman, who's in a desperate fight to hold onto his U.S.
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/14/2008 — As Norm Coleman gets set for a recount in his bid to hold onto his Minnesota Senate seat, it's worth considering where things stand on the allegations that surfaced in the waning days of the campaign about Coleman's relationship with his friend and ...
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hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com 1/7/2009 — The epic race for the MN senate seat will have yet another chapter before its finale. Republican Sen. Norm Coleman announced today that he'll take the fight for the seat to the state Supreme Court , less than a day after the state canvassing board ...
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First Read 11/26/2008
From NBC's Carrie Dann Senate candidate Al Franken will not appeal a decision by the Minnesota State Canvassing Board, which today rejected the Democrat's request that rejected absentee ballots be included in the race's hotly contested ...
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