fivethirtyeight.com - 12/22/2008
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Missed this story yesterday, but: Al Franken’s campaign is as close to declaring victory as it has throughout the weeks-long recount in the Minnesota Senate race. Franken’s campaign attorney Marc Elias said he expects Franken to be leading Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) by “between 35 and 50 votes” ...
startribune.com - 12/22/2008
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/24/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Norm Coleman just got a Christmas present from
the Minnesota Supreme Court: A giant lump of coal.
In a unanimous decision handed down just now, the state Supremes denied Coleman any relief in a lawsuit he was waging to deal with allegations of ...
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Minnesota Supremes Shoot Down Crucial Coleman Lawsuit, ...
foxnews.com - 12/22/2008
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foxnews.com —
Minnesota's Canvassing Board, in trying to divine the
intentions of voters in the state's U.S. Senate race,
will leave long lasting questions about the legitimacy of any win
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John Lott: Ballot Madness in Minnesota
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Franken-Coleman Recount: Franken Still Leads with Still More Ballots to Count
Firedoglake —
... when he projected a few weeks ago that Franken would win by 27 votes. As Nate says now, the fact that Franken's team is currently projecting a 35-to-50-vote win margin, a margin considerably less than the one the StarTribune is using, means that they are pretty confident that they have this in the bag once the dust settles. Also, as Nate says, the fact that the Coleman team really isn't attempting to attack the specifics of the Franken campaign's claimed win shows that they know full well that Franken is right. It also, in my opinion, shows that they know that ...
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msnbc.com: Politics 12/23/2008
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