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Go Franken Go!
Crooks and Liars — When does Bill O'Reilly's head officially explode? All told, Franken gained a net of 176 ballots from the 952 under review according to The Uptake's unofficial count, putting him 225 votes ahead in the recount overall. Excluding disqualified ballots, Franken won 53.7 percent of the votes counted today, Coleman 34.1 percent, and other candidates 12.4 percent. Franken's 225-vote advantage is now slightly larger than the one Norm Coleman held before the recount began, when he led by 215 votes based on the certified Election Night tally. ...

U.S. Senator-elect Al Franken roundup
Daily Kos — ... Nate Silver thinks Franken's lead is a blow to Coleman's legal prospects. "Either way, a number of legal stratagems that might have seemed appealing to the Coleman campaign might now be somewhat mooted. For instance, even if all 130 ballots that the Coleman campaign claimed were double-counted for Franken were removed from his tally (but no ballots at all had been double-counted for Coleman), Franken would maintain a significant advantage." ...

'Daily Voting News' For January 4 and 5, 2009
The BRAD BLOG — ... http://www.votersunite.o...g/info/EACviolations.asp FL: Hillsborough County - Audit disputes Johnson's request for more money http://blogs.tampabay.co...9/01/audit-disputes.html FL: Hillsborough County - Audit Of Elections Office Finds More Questions Than Answers http://www2.tbo.com/cont...s-more-questions-answer/ MN: Franken Jumps Out to 225-Vote Lead on Strength of Absentee Ballots http://www.fivethirtyeig...to-223-vote-lead-on.html MN: ...

An Interview with Norm Coleman
Weekly Standard Blog — ... About 12,000 absentee ballots were rejected and went uncounted on Election Day, but both campaigns and local election officials have already identified as improperly rejected and counted about about 950 of those absentee ballots. Franken ran up a surprising 20 point margin among these 950 ballots, which came from counties where Franken was only favored slightly. ...

Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Resurrecting Bush v. Gore
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Third, the circumstances of the Coleman-Franken litigation make intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court very improbable. Franken would be unlikely to turn to the federal courts if the Minnesota Supreme Court rules against him, preferring to take his chances as previously rejected absentee ballots are counted. Even if he did eventually appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, it would almost certainly decline to hear the case. The Court has shown no interest in revisiting Bush v. Gore (let alone expanding its holding), and it would want neither to ratify Franken's election nor ...