powerlineblog.com - 11/14/2008
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The Al Franken is using a series of lawsuits to try to bully the ex-comedian's way into the United States Senate. So far, though, they aren't going too well.
Franken has demanded that Minnesota counties give him lists of would-be voters whose absentee ballots were rejected. Some have ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/12/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Although it might seem like we've already covered
all the ground there is to cover on the
Minnesota recount process, we may be able to draw some additional lessons from Florida's recount experience in 2000. In 2001, the National Opinion Research ...
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Minnesota Recount: Number of Discrepancies May Be Low
nypost.com - 11/13/2008
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nypost.com —
Last updated: 4:12 pm November 13, 2008 Posted:
4:03 pm November 13, 2008 IF Al Franken wins
his Minnesota race, Democrats will get at least 58 US senators, giving them an effectively filibuster-proof majority. When Franken woke up on the day after ...
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FRANKEN 'FIXES' STALK SENATE RACE - New York Post
powerlineblog.com - 11/14/2008
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powerlineblog.com —
Al Franken is waging a campaign to overturn
the results of Minnesota's Senate election based on a
series of deceitful allegations. On this score the fraudulent sob story involving the 84-year-old stroke victim whose ballot was supposedly rejected ...
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What's happening in Minnesota? part 8
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Al Franken Hires Six Lawyers Per Voter
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Senate, Democrats, Breaking News You've heard of the Franken factor before, I'm sure. Well now we know the number. Six. It's the approximate amount of lawyers he has working for him per ballot he hopes to overturn in the upcoming Minnesota recount. That's 1,250 lawyers. So, for now anyway, there's a Franken factor of six in Minnesota.
The pre-recount drama continues to unfold in the Minnesota Senate race. Over the week and change since election night, more and more votes have mysteriously popped up for erstwhile left-wing pundit and ...
Minnesota Recount: Lying Liars edition
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... (via Power Line ) A touching story the Franken campaign told at mid-day Thursday about how a Beltrami County women’s stroke-impaired signature led to her ballot being rejected proved flawed. “We are still investigating,” Franken spokesman Andy Barr said Thursday night, adding that while the woman’s absentee ballot was rejected it was not because of her shaky signature as he reported a few hours earlier. The woman’s story was carried by news organizations in Minnesota and beyond. Franken’s U.S. Senate campaign originally said an 84-year-old Beltrami County woman’s post-stroke ...
MIDDAY ROUNDUP
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... scheduled meeting with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Monday strikes The Jed Report’s Jed Lewison as intriguing. While Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will be in attendance, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will not, Lewison notes, though Lieberman traveled with McCain and Graham extensively during the campaign. FROM THE BLOGS: [image] Steele and the Pro-Life Debate - A. Carpenter, Townhall.com [image] Joe in Connecticut - kos, Daily Kos [image] Lies - John Hinderaker, Power Line [image] Ayers on GMA - Michelle Malkin ...
Is Al Franken Winning by 22 Votes?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... The Franken camp has already knowingly told a false story about an elderly stroke victim whose absentee ballot was rejected because her signature didn't match the one on file.) The Coleman campaign says their candidate is "well ahead" of Franken, but won't place their lead at a specific number of votes. ...
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Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes
fivethirtyeight.com 11/23/2008 — 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 ...
Franken's Odds of Winning Recount May Be Long -- or Short
fivethirtyeight.com 11/10/2008 — Votes counted in Minnesota's senate race: 2,833,089 Votes separating Norm Coleman and Al Franken: 221 Determining a candidate's odds of winning a recount is a function of three parameters. The first parameter is the margin separating the leading and ...
Minnesota's recount goes south
powerlineblog.com 12/14/2008 — This past Monday the city of Minneapolis announced that it was giving up the search for the 133 ballots that are allegedly missing from a heavily Democratic precinct. The 133 ballots netted Al Franken 46 votes. Up to that point the Franken campaign ...
So What's the Deal with Franken?
corner.nationalreview.com 12/4/2008 — Yesterday the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza updated the Minnesota Senate recount under heading "Counting Chaos!" Yet the text of his update mostly belied the heading (and the exclamation mark).
Two weeks after Election Day, incumbent Republican ...
Minnesota's recount goes south
powerlineblog.com 12/16/2008 — Tomorrow the Canvassing Board presiding over the recount convenes to consider challenged ballots that were excluded because of their disputed status from the recount. At the urging of the Canvassing Board, both the Coleman and Franken campaigns are ...
Minnesota Recount: Lying Liars edition
hotair.com 11/14/2008 — Al Franken’s campaign hit a new low when they tried to argue that they should get all of the personal information connected to rejected absentee ballots in order for them to determine the legitimacy of the rejection. They spun a sad tale of a ...
Stealing Minnesota: The Franken Undervote Lie
redstate.com 11/14/2008 —
I spent six years as an elections lawyer. I handled
a lot of very wacked election canvasses
and recounts. One thing they all had in common: when new votes were
found, they generally went both ways -- a few for one candidate and
a few for the ...
More Minnesota Madness
fivethirtyeight.com 11/11/2008 — A Minneapolis-based Daily Kos diarist named 'bitwise' has done some further sleuthing on the impending Minnesota senate recount , which we had discussed at length this morning . Here's what he's found: The freshest data, pulled from the state website ...
Minnesota Senate recount, update X
powerlineblog.com 12/4/2008 — This morning Kathryn Lopez asked me to update NRO's Corner readers on the Minnesota Senate recount. This was my report.
Yesterday the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza updated the Minnesota Senate recount under heading "Counting Chaos!" Yet the ...
Franken Lobbies the Canvassing Board
powerlineblog.com 12/11/2008 — In what may be one of the low points of modern political history, the Al Franken campaign has assembled a tear-jerker of a video, featuring Franken voters whose absentee ballots were allegedly rejected by mistake:
Why is Franken doing this? ...
Schumer: 60 'possible but unlikely' —
First Read 11/13/2008
From NBC's Abby LivingstonIn his mission to crush a GOP filibuster, DSCC Chairman Chuck Schumer feels the chance of 60 Democratic senators this cycle is “possible, but unlikely.”
Briefing reporters this afternoon, the New York senator gave the ...
Hillary raises money for Franken —
First Read 11/14/2008
From NBC's Chuck Todd and Mark MurrayHillary Clinton, though her HillPAC, has sent a solicitation to supporters asking them to donate money to Al Franken during the recount in Minnesota's Senate race. "The Franken campaign is working hard to ...
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