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DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News —
... turkeys today, and Allahpundit wonders if the double clemency portends a similar fate for imprisoned border patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. FROM THE BLOGS: [image] Obama's To-Do List - JP Sottile, Oxdown Gazette [image] Pakistani Intelligence Involved? - T. Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard [image] Just the Man for the Job - Matthew Yglesias [image] An Obama Bubble? - Dan Riehl, Riehl World View [image] Canvassing Board Punts - Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight [image] No 'Girly Dogs' in the ...
Franken-Coleman Recount: In Which The UpTake, Nate Silver, and MNIndy Kick the TradMed’s Butt
Firedoglake —
The TradMed Stance on the Minnesota state canvassing board's non-ruling ruling on the rejected absentee ballots is that it was A Serious, Perhaps Fatal Blow To Franken's Campaign.
But, if you watched the coverage of the board meeting over at The UpTake, Minnesota's groundbreaking citizen-journalism video site, you saw something completely different (see graphic of screenshot I took of The UpTake's ever-changing front page).
Nate Silver, who follows The UpTake religiously, has this to add: ...
MN-Sen: Found ballots net Franken 37 new votes
Daily Kos —
... While this may lessen the possibility that Franken sues to have these ballots counted, it increases the chances that the Coleman campaign files suit to throw them out -- too much is riding on these ballots since the Franken campaign estimates that they may net 25-100 votes from those ballots. ...
Franken-Coleman Recount Update: They Told Us So
Firedoglake —
... : SoS Mark Ritchie's office has asked local election officials to examine an estimated 12,000 rejected absentee ballots to see whether their rejection fell under one of four reasons for rejection defined in state law. Ritchie's office asked that ballots that were rejected for something other than the four legal reasons be placed into a so-called "fifth category." In other words, since the canvassing board punted on this one, and since Ritchie doesn't want the screwed voters to have the courts for their only hope of relief, he's asking the county to do what the ...
Is Al Franken Trailing by Just Two Votes?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Nate Silver has written that Franken stands to gain approximately 25 to 100 votes if these improperly rejected ballots are counted (perhaps he now thinks that number is bigger since the estimated number of wrongly rejected ballots has grown). But Silver's projection is based on a poll that showed absentee voters favored Franken by 3 points more than the general electorate did. The poll had an unreliably small sample of 95 absentee voters. You read that right: 95. As Philip Klein, ...
