rothenbergpoliticalreport.blogspot.com - 12/5/2008
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By Nathan L. Gonzales Al Franken certainly isn’t the first candidate to endure a long recount. Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) knows all about close races and recounts, and she recently offered her advice to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor nominee in the protracted Minnesota Senate race. ...
senaterecount.startribune.com - 11/28/2008
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senaterecount.startribune.com —
About this project These are some of the
real ballots that have been challenged in the U.S....
Senate race. Evaluate each one based on the voter's intent. As you vote, the results change to reflect your decisions projected as if you had voted on every ...
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Minnesota Senate recount: Take the Franken-Coleman ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/5/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Four votes. That's how many votes the Franken
campaign just said they're leading Norm Coleman by, with...
the hand recount now officially finished. In other words, with every single precinct in Minnesota now done counting (except for the one where ...
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Franken Camp's Claim: The Hand Count Is Over -- And ...
politico.com - 12/3/2008
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politico.com —
Blog: Al Franken’s campaign attorney Marc Elias said
today that, based on its latest internal tally, Franken...
has taken the lead over Sen. Norm Colem
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Franken camp: 'We're winning'
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Matt Lewis: Franken Studies How to 'Steal' an Election
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... Posted by: Matt Lewis at 11:41 AM It is widely believed that Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire stole her 2004 election on the third re-count. ... So I guess it's no surprise that ...
Minnesota Recount: Counting’s done … almost
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... of the recount and of the challenged ballots. That’s a nine-vote improvement from the final numbers issued by the state after Election Night and the string of changes that came afterwards. It means nothing, though, until the board sifts through 5,000 ballot challenges to determine whether they can see voter intent. We’ll probably not find out who gets to sit in the Senate until at least Christmas and maybe not until the New Year. Still, it could be worse. Franken could start taking lessons from Christine Gregoire on recount etiquette: Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) ...
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powerlineblog.com 11/20/2008 — The recount in Minnesota's Coleman-Franken Senate race is underway; today, Franken gained a net 28 votes in Democratic St. Louis County. The gain was attributed to older voting machines that failed to read faint pencil marks. A Republican spokesman ...
Franken Makes Gains In First Day Of Recount, But It's Far From Over
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/20/2008 — The first day of the Minnesota recount is behind us, and it's been a good day for Al Franken. GOP Sen. Norm Coleman's lead has been reduced from 215 votes to 174, a decrease of 41 votes, with 18% of precincts recounted.
Franken's biggest gains ...
Franken/Coleman Minnesota Senate recount news
startribune.com 11/24/2008 — 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, ...
Franken Campaign Pushes to Expand Minnesota Recount
blogs.wsj.com 11/26/2008 — Brad Haynes reports on the election.
With the manual recount winding up in Minnesotas Senate race, Al Franken ’s campaign is pressing election officials to take a closer look at many more ballots.
Frankens top lawyer, Marc Elias , ...
Franken Loses Crucial Ruling in Minnesota Recount
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 11/26/2008 — Franken is looking to include thousands of absentee ballots in the Senate race recount.
(CNN) — Minnesota's Canvassing Board voted unanimously to reject Franken's request to include thousands of absentee ballots that are not included in the ...
Franken Up By 50 In Recount, For Now
huffingtonpost.com 12/30/2008 — Al Franken has ended the unofficial Minnesota Senate election recount up 50 votes over Sen. Norm Coleman.
The margin is subject to change as the state and both campaigns considers what to do with roughly 1,350 wrongfully rejected absentee ballots. ...
Franken Claims Lead in Senate Recount
politicalwire.com 12/4/2008 — Al Franken's
(D) campaign said that the comedian has taken the lead in his race
against Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), according to The Hill . Franken "has been pressing for the
media to focus on the campaign's internal vote totals of the recount, which ...
Congress: Not sold just yet —
First Read 12/5/2008
“The chief executives of Detroit's automakers returned to Capitol Hill yesterday bearing austere business plans and a dose of humility, but they failed to close the deal for as much as $38 billion in federal loans,” the Washington Post ...
Minn. Senate recount nears end: Coleman leads —
Reuters: Politics 12/5/2008
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A recount in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken lurched toward an inconclusive end on Friday with Coleman leading by 251 votes out of more than 2.4 million ballots ...
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