latimes.com - 4/7/2009
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"The problem that Sen. Coleman has is he lost fair and square," Elias wrote in an e-mail. "He lost because more people voted for Al Franken than voted for Norm Coleman. No amount of lawyering or sophisticated legal arguments is going to change that." Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who was ...
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/7/2009
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Minnesota has just finished counting the 351 previously-rejected
ballots approved by the three-judge panel as having been...
legally cast and rejected in error. The numbers: Al Franken 198, Norm Coleman 111, Other 42. This means that Al Franken's ...
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With Votes Counted, Franken Now Leads By 312 Votes
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Al Franken's 'victory' margin grows: 312
The Swamp —
... So reports our colleague, Michael Muskal, at latimes.com, noting that a three-judge panel opened about 350 disputed ballots in the continuing Franken-Coleman contest today, and Franken was the happier for it. ...
Franken widens lead in latest Minnesota Senate recount
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... Democrat Al Franken's lead in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race widened Tuesday to 312 votes. Sore loserman. When even the National Fishwrap tells you to pack it in, you know its time to call it quits.
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Franken Up By 50 In Recount, For Now
huffingtonpost.com 12/30/2008 — Al Franken has ended the unofficial Minnesota Senate election recount up 50 votes over Sen. Norm Coleman.
The margin is subject to change as the state and both campaigns considers what to do with roughly 1,350 wrongfully rejected absentee ballots. ...
Final tallying begins in MN senate trial —
CNN Political Ticker 4/7/2009
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) — The trial to resolve Minnesota's disputed U.S. Senate race may soon be over — but get ready for appeals, say attorneys involved in the case.
The three judge panel on Tuesday is reviewing and potentially counting ...
AP: Franken's lead grows to 312 —
First Read 4/7/2009
From NBC's Mark MurrayThis has to be a bit ironic: In the three-judge trial that Norm Coleman (R) asked for, it turns out that Al Franken's lead has grown, after the addition of some 350 absentee ballots to the count. Coleman's camp, of course, wanted ...
The Franken-Coleman spin war —
First Read 4/7/2009
From NBC's Mark Murray and Harry Enten In a conference call with reporters, Al Franken attorney Marc Elias said that after today's absentee ballot count in Minnesota -- in which Franken built on his 225-vote lead -- there is no doubt that the ...
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