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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/31/2008

Minnesota Recount Almost Over -- But Coleman Could Keep A Franken Win Bottled Up For Weeks

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Al Franken could be declared the winner of the Minnesota recount as soon as Monday, but due to the peculiarities of Minnesota election law, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) could keep the seat bottled up in the courts for weeks or even months before a decisive resolution to the race, making it harder ...

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Talking Points Memo:  It's Mine, All Mine!

Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News:  Minnesota Recount Almost Over -- But Coleman Could Keep A Franken Win Bottled Up For Weeks

The Moderate Voice:  It’s 2009, And Still Counting in Minnesota

Political Animal:  Friday's campaign round-up

Daily Kos:  MN-Sen: Petty partisan politics from GOP

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It's Mine, All Mine!
Talking Points Memo — ... Norm Coleman's chances of winning the Minnesota senate race are approaching nil. But he does have a plan to keep Al Franken from getting sworn in for weeks or months. ...

Minnesota Recount Almost Over -- But Coleman Could Keep A Franken Win Bottled Up For Weeks
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... Minnesota law actually prevents the issuing of a certificate of election to the winner until a contest proceeding is settled (unlike other states that will certify a win, and then allow the loser to pursue legal challenges if they want). The bottom line here is that even if Coleman ultimately loses the recount plus the formal court contest, he could be able to drag out the seating of Franken for quite some time, well beyond next week's swearing of the 111th Congress. Read more: http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12...

It’s 2009, And Still Counting in Minnesota
The Moderate Voice — It is now, technically, a year later and the Coleman-Franken race is still on, albeit perhaps finally sputtering to an end—the ballots counting phase, that is. According to TPM Election Central: Al Franken could be declared the winner of the Minnesota recount as soon as Monday, but due to the peculiarities of Minnesota election law, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) could keep the seat bottled up in the courts for weeks or even months before a decisive resolution to the race, making it harder for the Democratic majority in the Senate to seat Franken on ...

Friday's campaign round-up
Political Animal — ... from State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, New York most powerful legislator, who had previously expressed reservations. Silver said yesterday, "If she is the appointee of the governor, I will certainly be supportive of her. I will work for her and will work strenuously for her election." * Norm Coleman appears poised to keep Minnesota's unresolved Senate race " bottled up in the courts for weeks or even months ." Al Franken will likely be declared the winner early next week. * There are as many as 18 people eyeing Rahm Emanuel's House seat, but the ...

MN-Sen: Petty partisan politics from GOP
Daily Kos — ... The open question in Minnesota's Senate race is no longer who will win, but when he will be seated. As TPM's Eric Kleefeld outlines, Al Franken has effectively won, but because Norm Coleman is playing the part of a sore loser, Minnesota's senate seat runs the risk of getting caught up in GOP partisan politics for many more weeks. ...

If The Shoe Were On The Other Foot . . .
TalkLeft — I hate this type of hypocrisy - TPM and JedL are criticizing Norm Coleman for exercising his legal right to contest the Minnesota Senate election. Excuse me, when Coleman was asking Franken to concede when Franken was trailing by 600 votes (Franken now leads by 49 votes), TPM and JedL (and me) were criticizing Coleman for what they are now doing. Coleman has the right, I would argue he has a duty to his supporters, to make sure he really lost the election before he concedes. Minnesota law does not allow for certification of a winner until an election contest ...