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What happened in Minnesota
Power Line —
... This morning NRO has posted my column "Minnesota 101." In the column I try to trace events from the conclusion of the canvas to the opening of the 351 previously rejected absentee ballots yesterday. ...
Franken Camp Planned Ahead For Recount
TPM Election Central —
... lead attorney.
"There are two reasons Al won the recount," said Elias. "He had more lawful votes and because of the organization that Stephanie has overseen." Compare this to the general consensus that the Coleman camp didn't handle themselves well here -- though granted, this is something of a tautology considering that Coleman lost the recount. But here's what conservative blogger (and Minnesotan) Scott Johnson from Powerline writes, in a new article in National Review:
From the outset of the post-election process, the Coleman ...
Why I've Been Ignoring the Minnesota Recount
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... Minneapolis-based attorney Scott Johnson has some parallel thoughts at the National Review, although he places somewhat more blame at the hands of Coleman's legal team, which he calls complacent and inept. I'm not really sure that there is much more that Coleman's team could have done, because I'm not sure that there is ultimately any reasonably self-consistent ballot counting standard by which Coleman would have emerged victorious. Nevertheless, I think Johnson is right that the performance of Coleman's counsel has been haphazard: they never really attempted to ...
Franken-Coleman Update: When Even Powerline’s Dissing You
Firedoglake —
... , the Coleman portion of Operation Stonewall is so lame that even some conservative voices are calling Norm out on continuing it. One conservative voice that has consistently departed from the GOP herd in criticizing the Coleman legal team's strategy, if not their goals, has been Powerline blogger Scott Johnson. In this piece for National Review (h/t ...
MN-Sen: Coleman Has No Friends Any More
Daily Kos —
... time we had an opening, somebody like Karl Rove and (George W. Bush campaign manager) Ken Mehlman and the Republican apparatchiks in the White House decide who is going to represent Minnesota. Closed out the party, closed out everybody else. That's what's going on now ... 'We will continue to fund you, just to keep the Democrat out of the Senate.' At some point, somebody has to deal with what's the will of the people of Minnesota." Minnesota conservative blogger Scott Johnson, of Powerline, writing at National Review: Indeed, I ...
The Journal's missing facts
Power Line —
... on the subject that prompted me to write "Minnesota 101" for NRO. I am a great admirer of the Journal's editorial page. It may never have served a more important service than it is now in resisting the Age of Obama, but its commentary on the recount is, in my view, unimpressive. ...
When Does 'Close' Become Too-Close-to-Call?
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... from among the set of reasonable counterfactuals, some subset of them would have altered the outcome of the election. This is far from apparent in Minnesota. The Coleman legal team never really attempted to argue for a particular standard of ballot-counting. Instead, their approach was ad-hoc -- they presented a series of ballots to the elections panel and said "here, count these ones!". Although there are various reasons why this might have been their approach -- incompetence, for instance -- another interpretation is that the Coleman team knew it was likely ...
Coleman v. Franken: The end is near
Power Line —
The Minnesota Supreme Court has posted video of the oral argument in the Coleman v. Franken election appeal held before the Court yesterday. Jay Weiner's account of the argument is the best that I have read. I provided my take on the recount litigation for NRO in "Minnesota 101."
When I say the end is near, for Minnesotans I should add: Repent!
Is it over for Norm Coleman?
Sister Toldjah —
... wrote a piece for National Review that summarized the situation there for both Coleman and Franken, and he noted that in spite of what it appeared on the surface, that Franken was “not” trying to steal the election. Coleman’s post-election day strategy has been deeply flawed - not only that, but in all honestly he wouldn’t be in this position if he had been a better Senator. ...
Is It Over For Norm Coleman?
Right Wing News —
... wrote a piece for National Review that summarized the situation there for both Coleman and Franken, and he noted that in spite of what it appeared like on the surface, that Franken was "not" trying to steal the election. Coleman's post-election day strategy has just been deeply flawed - not only that, but in all honesty he wouldn't be in this position if he had been a better Senator. Minnesota stands poised to name a ...
Al Franken wins
Power Line —
... In "Minnesota 101" this past April, I provided my take on the transformation of Senator Coleman's apparent election night win into Franken's prospective victory. Although the election contest panel decision had not been issued at the time of the column, the writing was on the wall. ...
