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WSJ tankin' on Franken
Majikthise — ... Nate Silver takes the Wall Street Journal to task for several factual errors in the paper's op/ed on Al Franken's recent Senate victory in Minnesota. ...

2009 Rung In With Unfinished Electoral Business
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, as is their wont, have officially endorsed the notion that the decision to certify Franken the winner is fraudulent and founded in pro-Franken bias. But YOUR NEW GOD Nate Silver of the spectacular and oracular FiveThirtyEight.com, has taken issue with their reasoning, as is his wont. The gist is, Coleman's lawsuit means you can expect this matter to be resolved sometime between now and Armageddon, when at last, the ...

2009 Rung In With Unfinished Electoral Business
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, as is their wont, have officially endorsed the notion that the decision to certify Franken the winner is fraudulent and founded in pro-Franken bias. But YOUR NEW GOD Nate Silver of the spectacular and oracular FiveThirtyEight.com, has taken issue with their reasoning, as is his wont. The gist is, Coleman's lawsuit means you can expect this matter to be resolved sometime between now and Armageddon, when at last, the ...

Casting doubt
Political Animal — ... . Not surprisingly, the far-right arguments don't stand up well to scrutiny. Which is to say, their complaints are baseless. Earlier this week, Nate Silver went paragraph by paragraph , highlighting exactly why the WSJ editorial is completely wrong. Just as good, Minnesota Assistant Chief Judge Edward J. Cleary, a member of the state canvassing board, wrote ...

Franken's Lawyer Tells BuzzFlash It'll Soon Be Over. Meanwhile, "Seat the Senator" Contestants Still Wait
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... , observers have proclaimed the recount as pretty clean . And no matter what conservatives say about the importance of counting every vote, there's no doubt that Coleman's fight has been more about saving his seat than electoral fairness. There are clear signals from Coleman that the Republican Party is pushing him to pursue the legal process for as long as possible to keep the Democrats from amassing any more power than they already have in the U.S. Senate. The GOP has already rewarded Coleman for his vigilance with ...