seeingtheforest.com - 11/22/2008
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Story Number One: It's an amazingly close election
The Franken-Coleman election is freakishly close. The first semi-official report showed a spread of 700 votes out of 2.9 million (less than three...
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/23/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
As we wrote yesterday evening, the ever-increasing number
of challenged ballots in Minnesota is making it more
and more difficult to determine the extent to which Al Franken is in fact gaining ground in the state's recount process. An analysis of ...
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Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes
startribune.com - 11/24/2008
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startribune.com —
Blog: The Big Question Here’s one way to
send a protest with your ballot This Anoka County
voter was clearly ready for the end of campaign season. This ballot has an almost poetic quality. In case you have trouble reading it, the poem goes like this, ...
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Franken/Coleman Minnesota Senate recount news
nypost.com - 11/20/2008
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nypost.com —
Left-wing billionaire financier George Soros is using his
financial muscle at a Manhattan fund-raiser tonight to help
Al Franken win a recount in Minnesota's Senate election. Soros - the hedge-fund honcho and sugar daddy of the Democratic Party -...
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SOROS BOO$TS FRANKEN
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Hullabaloo —
It's What They Do by digby Or what Karl Rove does anyway. John Emerson reports on the Franken Coleman recount: But Coleman is a Rovian. Even though he hasn't won yet, legally speaking, he's already declared victory three times. He's proposed that Franken waive the "unnecessary" recount. He's blamed Franken for the cost of the recount required by law. He's smeared Secretary of State Ritchey. He's smeared several local election boards. He's made a stink about the 32 votes (which were never lost and were never in the trunk of a car), ...
And the painted ponies go up and down
The Sideshow —
Wouldn't it be nice if Saxby Chambliss' use of stinky campaign ads in the runoff for his Senate seat actually sank him this time? Did we mention that, while everything is going routinely in Minnesota, the Republicons are stinking up the place? Oh, please let the conservative reactionary movement be over. Don Corrigan says Sarah Palin is still talking about Joe the Plumber and his friends, but he sure wishes she'd introduce another guy: "For my money, I wish she would have found Randy the Regulator this fall. He has been missing for years, ...
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