senaterecount.startribune.com - 12/22/2008
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RACE AT A GLANCE - Close About this data Resolved challenges Remaining Current vote totals Coleman Franken Other/ no one Coleman Franken Margin Current recount totals 2,955 3,191 542 5,432 1,211,890 1,211,938 Franken by 48 Challenged by Coleman 32 3,125 247 Challenged by Franken 2,926 71 299 ...
There’s Hope For Franken Yet
truthdig.com 12/19/2008 — BradBlog has the latest from the endless recount battle in Minnesota, where Al Franken has apparently pulled into a two-vote lead. Results are day-to-day, but the Star Tribune is predicting Franken will win out by fewer than 100 votes.
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Franken Claims to Have Lead of 35-50 Votes
fivethirtyeight.com 12/22/2008 — Missed this story yesterday, but: Al Franken’s campaign is as close to declaring victory as it has throughout the weeks-long recount in the Minnesota Senate race. Franken’s campaign attorney Marc Elias said he expects Franken to be leading Sen. Norm ...
Minnesota Senate Recount Heads for a Photo Finish
powerlineblog.com 12/23/2008 — Minnesota's Canvassing Board has now allocated most of the ballots which the Franken and Coleman campaigns had challenged, but subsequently withdrew those challenges. As a result, Franken's lead has dwindled from 251 on Friday to 48 at the end of the ...
Franken Maintains 48-Vote Lead
fivethirtyeight.com 12/23/2008 — The Star Tribune reports that Al Franken holds a 48-vote lead over Norm Coleman, with thousands of withdrawn challenges having been added back in to the respective candidates' totals. This number would be roughly in accordance with the 35-50 vote lead ...
Coleman Camp Launches Last-Minute Effort To Undo Franken's 48-Vote Lead
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/23/2008 — It simply doesn't end in Minnesota. Just as the state canvassing board was meeting this morning to review and perhaps even approve the new vote totals showing Al Franken ahead by 48 votes, the Coleman campaign put forward a new maneuver to try to ...
MN-Sen: Franken up by 48
dailykos.com 12/23/2008 — The Minnesota Canvassing Board today allocated the rest of the withdrawn challenged ballots, and Al Franken now unofficially leads by 48 votes . Crazy shit. The Coleman campaign tried to get the board to reconsider some of its decisions, but was ...
ACORN And SOROS Fingerprints On Franken Vote Grab
nicedeb.wordpress.com 12/24/2008 —
Figures:
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who orchestrated the recount that gave Democratic challenger Al Franken a lead some six weeks after incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman appeared to win by 725 votes on Election Day, has extensive ...
Some Year End Thoughts on Coleman-Franken
themoderatevoice.com 12/24/2008 — It now seems clear that we won’t know the outcome of the Minnesota Senate race until next year, but Senator Norm Coleman has come forward with some observations which seem downright fatalistic.
“ I feel fairly confident. In the end, the good ...
Coleman And Franken Make A Deal
huffingtonpost.com 12/24/2008 — Minnesota Public Radio reports that Sen. Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken have struck a deal on disputed absentee ballots in their recount.
The plan they've submitted, which must be reviewed by the Minnesota Supreme Court, would count ...
Franken Should Be Seated Until Election Mess Is Resolved: Klobuchar
huffingtonpost.com 12/28/2008 — With concern rising in Minnesota that the state could be without a Senator for the crucial early months of the next Congress, Sen. Amy Klobuchar weighed in with a significant proposal this weekend: seat the unofficial winner until all legal ...
Klobuchar: Seat Franken Now, Argue About it Later —
Politics Daily
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D, Minn) has a Solomonic proposal for settling the Franken/Coleman senate contest: G ive it to Al. I like the way she thinks. From HuffPo: "If the Canvassing Board declares a winner, that should be our senator," said the Minnesota Democrat. Even if a court challenge were ...
Franken-Coleman Recount Update —
Weekly Standard Blog
On Christmas Eve, the Minnesota Supreme Court handed down a decision that ensures the Franken-Coleman recount will not be resolved for at least a few more weeks.
Norm Coleman, who trails Franken by 46 votes, had filed a petition with the state supreme court to seek redress for the alleged ...
Next year in Minnesota —
The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings Minnesota Public Radio : Minnesotans will not know whether Democrat Al Franken or Republican Norm Coleman won the Senate race until next year. Election officials, along with the two campaigns, have agreed on a framework for adding wrongly-rejected absentee ...
Coleman And Franken Make A Deal —
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Minnesota Public Radio reports that Sen. Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken have struck a deal on disputed absentee ballots in their recount.
The plan they've submitted, which must be reviewed by the Minnesota Supreme Court, would count rejected absentees only if both sides agree they ...
Franken-Coleman Race: After New Year's.... —
Corrente
Due to my long expressed goal of being the one vote that puts Al Franken up over one of the slimiest Senators in Minnesota history, I'm following this story as closely as a Twins pennant race.
The upshot is that no answer will come before the new Congress is sworn in, and it doesn't look like ...
Coleman-Franken: Dec. 23, 6:43 PM (It Is Now ‘09) —
The Moderate Voice
AP’s Brian Bakst reports in Yahoo! News that the Minnesota Canvassing Board “scheduled a Jan. 5 meeting and its chairman said the panel’s work could spill into Jan. 6 — the day the next Congress convenes.”
As we left it yesterday evening, Franken was leading by 48 ...
Minnesota Recount: Canvassing Board Lenient on Franken Voters —
Politics Daily
ColemanForSenate.com In this example there are two separate ballots, one with the Franken oval filled in, the other with the Coleman oval filled in. In both instances, an "X" covers the oval for both the Senate race and the Presidential race. However, the Board allocated the Franken vote for ...
Coleman Speaks: "The Numbers Look Good" —
The Latest on Air America
For the first time since the Minnesota Senate recount began between Senator Norm Coleman and Al Franken, Coleman spoke publicly to a local Minneapolis television station. Even though Franken is leading Coleman by 48 votes, Coleman believes he’ll win because according to him "the good ...
Coleman-Franken: December 22, 10:42 PM —
The Moderate Voice
According to various reports, Franken’s lead of 251 on Friday had dwindled to 48 at the end of yesterday’s Minnesota’s Canvassing Board actions.
The StarTribune.com reported last night:
As the U.S. Senate recount approaches another crossroad today, it appears that DFLer Al ...
Franken Leads By Six Touchdowns and Two Field Goals —
Politics Daily
Minnesota's state canvassing board is about to allocate votes from 5,000 challenged ballots in the Senate race between incumbent Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken. And the winner is... Franken, by 48 votes ! That's right. 48 voters are deciding the fate of this race. For those keeping ...
Franken Leads Coleman by 48 Votes —
Drudge Retort
After the state Canvassing Board awards a final pile of votes in Minnesota's unsettled U.S. Senate race Tuesday, Democrat Al Franken is poised to hold on to a 48-vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.
Franken-Coleman: Confusion! Chaos! (Not.) —
Firedoglake
Nothing much happening today -- the withdrawn challenges aren't officially being allocated until tomorrow (though the preliminary numbers show (h/t Nate Silver ) Franken hanging onto a 48-vote lead over Norm Coleman ), the state supreme court won't rule on the Coleman "duplicate ...
Coleman Camp Projects Win–if it Snags Court Victory —
News
Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R) campaign said Monday it would emerge victorious over Democrat Al Franken in the Minnesota Senate race—but only if the state’s Supreme Court grants them a key victory in a lawsuit.
Coleman campaign officials said that they would be ahead of Franken after the remaining ...
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