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Franken says recount is needed
startribune.com - 11/6/2008
Franken says recount is needed
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The Democrat's deficit is down to 341 votes in his Senate battle with Norm Coleman.
Franken's Odds of Winning Recount May Be Long -- or Short
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/10/2008
Franken's Odds of Winning Recount May Be Long -- or Short
— fivethirtyeight.com — Votes counted in Minnesota's senate race: 2,833,089 Votes separating Norm Coleman and Al Franken: 221 Determining a... candidate's odds of winning a recount is a function of three parameters. The first parameter is the margin separating the leading and ... (more) Franken's Odds of Winning Recount May Be Long -- or Short

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Coleman vs. Franken: Recount looms
startribune.com - 11/5/2008
Coleman vs. Franken: Recount looms
— startribune.com — One of the most bitter U.S. Senate races in Minnesota history continued to grind on early this... morning, with Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and DFL challenger Al Franken locked in a race that remained too close to call. With 98 percent of the returns ... (more) Coleman vs. Franken: Recount looms

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Franken's deficit: 236 votes
startribune.com - 11/7/2008
Franken's deficit: 236 votes
— startribune.com — Sen. Norm Coleman's Democratic challenger is vowing to push ahead with a recount.... (more) Franken's deficit: 236 votes

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The Corner on National Review Online:  438

Daily Kos:  MN-Sen: Coleman's lead is dwindling

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438
The Corner on National Review Online — ... Thursday, November 06, 2008 [image] 438 [John J. Miller] That's the number of votes currently preventing Al Franken from becoming a U.S. senator. ...

MN-Sen: Coleman's lead is dwindling
Daily Kos — ... That means the gap has gone down from 443, to 437, to 337 as provisional and other straggler ballots are counted. It was 477 votes last night. The Star-Tribune has more: ...

Al Franken Wants A Recount: "This Is The Closest Senate Race In Minnesota History"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Read the latest on the Minnesota Senate race. Norm Coleman is ahead of Al Franken by 336 votes. Coleman declared victory Wednesday, but a recount appears to be in the works. For even more information on the race, go to HuffPost's Al Franken BigNews page. From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Democrat Al Franken, locked in an overtime election battle with incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, said today that he is pushing ahead with the recount of Tuesday's voting. "No, no," Franken said in an interview on Minnesota Public ...

Al Franken Wants A Recount: "This Is The Closest Senate Race In Minnesota History"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Read the latest on the Minnesota Senate race. Norm Coleman is ahead of Al Franken by 336 votes. Coleman declared victory Wednesday, but a recount appears to be in the works. For even more information on the race, go to HuffPost's Al Franken BigNews page. From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Democrat Al Franken, locked in an overtime election battle with incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, said today that he is pushing ahead with the recount of Tuesday's voting. "No, no," Franken said in an interview on Minnesota Public ...

One one-hundredth of a percentage point
Political Animal — ONE ONE-HUNDREDTH OF A PERCENTAGE POINT.... Don't look now, but things are getting pretty interesting in Minnesota. Just as Secretary of State Mark Ritchie was explaining to reporters the recount process in one of the narrowest elections in Minnesota history, an aide rushed in with news: Pine County's Partridge Township had revised its vote total upward -- another 100 votes for Democratic candidate Al Franken, putting him within .011 percentage points of Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman. The reason for the change? Exhausted county officials had accidentally entered 24 for ...

Norm Gettin' Squirrelly
Talking Points Memo — ... that optical scan machines could produce non-trivial swings in the vote since votes that don't register on the optical scan machines often have evident voter intent on visual inspection.) But, now, as he sees his margin dwindle, Coleman is trying to play the 'vote fraud' card in a desperate attempt to retain his seat. ...

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