fivethirtyeight.com - 12/18/2008
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The State of Minnesota's Canvassing Board has finished adjudicating challenges brought to the Board by Al Franken. They will begin evaluating challenges brought by Norm Coleman's campaign tomorrow. The Star Tribune has logged 391 challenges made by the Franken campaign. Among these, 225 ballots ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/18/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Don't look now, but it looks like Al
Franken may win the Minnesota Senate race. A series
of developments in the last few days have given the very strong impression that Al is suddenly in a position to prevail -- and a resolution of the fight might ...
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Franken The Likely Winner As Minnesota Recount Heads To ...
startribune.com - 12/19/2008
fivethirtyeight.com - 12/19/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
This is fuzzy, fuzzy math, but with Norm
Coleman again converting only a very low percentage of
his challenges in counting this morning, I am now projecting a Franken lead of something like 40 votes after all challenged ballots -- including ballot ...
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Franken Appears Likely to Lead After Challenge Phase
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MN-Sen: Quick notes
Daily Kos —
... lead has increased to 330 votes! But don't sweat it too much. The canvassing board has been reviewing Franken challenges, which were expected to tilt heavily toward Coleman. The same thing should happen when the board reviews the much larger pile of Coleman challenges -- the majority should end up on Franken's column. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune crunches some numbers and projects that Franken will win by 275 votes. But Nate argues it's pretty tough to make such projections. We might know now something about many votes a ...
Is Al Franken Trailing by Just Two Votes?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Tomorrow morning the AP will show Franken rapidly pulling away with the lead--but this number is bunk because the state has not allocated thousands of challenged ballots withdrawn by Franken or Coleman. As Nate Silver wrote yesterday, Franken did reasonably well as the canvassing board, comprised of four judges and the secretary of state, reviewed his pile of 400 total challenged ballots, but ...
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