cqpolitics.com - 1/22/2009
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Democratic candidate Al Franken made a bid Wednesday to short-circuit the court case that’s intended to give Minnesota a winner in its closely contested Senate race. Attorneys for Franken argued that a state court should dismiss the lawsuit filed by Republican Norm Coleman because the ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 1/17/2009
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Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
And maybe, Norm Coleman is hoping, elections in Minnesota....
Call it a hunch, but a couple of recent articles suggest that Norm Coleman's goal might not be to pull ahead of Al Franken outright, but ...
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Is Coleman's Goal a Do-Over?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/23/2009
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At a pre-trial hearing in the Minnesota election
lawsuit just now, Franken attorney Kevin Hamilton made a...
striking accusation: That the Coleman campaign has been doctoring evidence. As an example, Hamilton showed two photocopies of a rejected ...
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Franken Legal Team: Coleman Is Doctoring Evidence
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/16/2009
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In some ways, Al Franken's 225 vote lead
the Minnesota Senate race is an illusory number. That's...
his margin after the state canvassing board completed its recount. Why isn't he in the Senate? Thank Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Senate Majority Leader ...
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Provocation of The Day: Coleman Could Still Win
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Franken Wants Senate to Decide
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Al Franken (D) made a bid "to short-circuit the court case that's intended to give Minnesota a winner in its closely contested Senate race," CQ Politics reports. ...
Franken Tells Minnesota Court to Butt Out; Let Harry Reid Decide Who Won
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Today Al Franken sought to eliminate the role of the Minnesota courts in deciding whether he won the state’s Senate election, and instead let Harry Reid decide:
Democratic candidate Al Franken made a bid Wednesday to short-circuit the court case that’s intended to give Minnesota a winner in its closely contested Senate race.
Attorneys for Franken argued that a state court should dismiss the lawsuit filed by Republican Norm Coleman because the three-judge panel designated to hear the case lacks jurisdiction for Coleman’s type of complaint.
The proper venue, Franken’s attorneys argued, is the U.S. Senate, ...
Franken Makes Case To Let Senate Decide
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
Source: CQ Jan. 22, 2009 – 6:12 a.m. By Emily Cadei, CQ Staff ... Attorneys for Franken argued that a state court should dismiss the lawsuit filed by Republican Norm Coleman because the three-judge panel designated to hear the case lacks jurisdiction for Coleman’s type of complaint. The proper venue, Franken’s attorneys argued, is the U.S. Senate, which has the power to judge the election of its members ... ... Harry Reid , D-Nev., met with Franken for about 30 minutes in his office Wednesday evening.“The race in Minnesota is over,” Reid said .... “There’s no way, mathematically, the election results are going to change” ... Read more: ...
'Daily Voting News' For January 22, 2009
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... Co-inventor of device to no longer receive royalties http://www.chicagotribun...igajan14,0,6211458.story
IL: DuPage Co. election director under investigation for business ties http://www.dailyherald.c...ry/?id=264123&src=2
MN: Optical-scan voting extremely accurate in Minnesota http://freedom-to-tinker...emely-accurate-minnesota
MN: Franken Makes Case To Let Senate Decide http://www.cqpolitics.co...?docid=news-000003014318 ...
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