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 rather to create enough confusion and uncertainty ...
politico.com - 1/22/2009
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politico.com —
Last session's senior senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman,
still battling Al Franken to be seated in the
Senate, has taken a paid job as a consultant to the Republican Jewish Coalition, which harshly attacked Obama last fall, its executive director, ...
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Coleman takes a job
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
startribune.com - 1/11/2009
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startribune.com —
Featured comment Close comment Coleman's quest is becoming
more and more quixote-like First, Coleman's demand that Franken
conceed the day after the polls closed is becoming increasingly ironic. Second, since Franken pulled read more ahead by 225 ...
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Coleman is casting wider net for votes
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FiveThirtyEight: Is Coleman's goal a do-over?
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Franken-Coleman Update, 01/17/09: Resisting the Mud
Firedoglake —
... Nate Silver is the latest person to discuss the Coleman camp's strategy of attempting to muddy the waters (and to prolong processes that normally are done rather quickly). He guesses that Norm's trying to make things look so icky that everybody just throws up their hands and says "Screw it -- let's have a do-over" as happened in New Hampshire back in the 1970s. ...
Is Coleman Aiming for a Do-Over Election?
TPM Election Central —
... Of course, this opens up the question of how Coleman could justify any finding of a win for himself, since even a mathematically possible Coleman victory margin would be too narrow for these purposes. At this point we're looking at Nate Silver's hypothesis, that Coleman might be aiming for a do-over election as a possible outcome. ...
OK, let's have a do-over of 2000 while we're at it, m'kay?
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... Of course, this opens up the question of how Coleman could justify any finding of a win for himself, since even a mathematically possible Coleman victory margin would be too narrow for these purposes. At this point we're looking at Nate Silver's hypothesis, that Coleman might be aiming for a do-over election as a possible outcome. ...
'Can We Get a Do-Over? Or Help From the Supremes?': Week 2 Begins at the U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
The BRAD BLOG —
... Like we said, that was then and this now. So never mind that whole "voter fraud" argument. Not useful today for the GOP opportunists. And now, while I'll try to stay out of the deep weeds tonight on today's proceedings at the Coleman/Franken circus (you're welcome), Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com argues convincingly --- based on fairly reliable reads of usually-predictable WSJ and other Wingnut Tea Leaves --- that Team Coleman may ultimately be angling for a do-over. That is, a re-vote for the entire election. ...
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