corner.nationalreview.com - 12/19/2008
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Is Al Franken Trailing by Just Two Votes?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... and Kathryn Lopez, among others, to despair. There may be good reason to be anxious, if not desperate, but not because of the AP count. ...
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The Good News for Coleman...
fivethirtyeight.com 1/7/2009 — ...is that the Minnesota Supreme Court's order (.pdf) today didn't make any judgment whatsoever about the merits of Coleman's case on absentee ballots. It merely said that the time to resolve these things is during an election contest, not during the ...
Coleman Lawyers Up
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Report: Minnesota Senate race down to 5 votes —
CNN.com - Politics 12/19/2008
Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman's unofficial lead over Democrat Al Franken shrank to five votes as a Minnesota Canvassing Board continued analyzing ballots from the November 4 Senate election, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported Friday.
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