senaterecount.startribune.com - 11/28/2008
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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 challenged ballot. We've built in a margin of ...
startribune.com - 12/3/2008
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startribune.com —
Featured comment Close comment Pendulum swing I'm not
sure I would have used that term in the
headline, as the pendulum is basically still pointing nearly straight down, with perhaps read more .01 of a degree either way. The careful election observers ...
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Senate recount: Pendulum swings to Franken
thehill.com - 12/3/2008
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thehill.com —
Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken’s campaign said
Wednesday that the comedian has taken the lead in
his race against Sen. Norm Coleman (R). Franken’s lawyer, Marc Elias, has been pressing for the media to focus on the campaign’s ...
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TheHill.com
rothenbergpoliticalreport.blogspot.com - 12/5/2008
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rothenbergpoliticalreport.blogspot.com —
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 ...
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Minnesota Senate: Gregoire Offers Recount Advice to Franken
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Minnesota Challenged Ballot Examples
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
The Star Tribune has nearly 600 actual challenged ballots available for your perusal. I don't know whether this is a truly random sampling or not, although it appears to be. The site is a little slow and you'll have to sign into their website to be able to peruse all of them, but it's apparent that: ...
Do Your Own Al Franken Recount!
The Stump —
... Here's a fascinating Friday-afternoon toy from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: A website that lets you view challenged ballots from the neck-and-neck Al Franken/Norm Coleman showdown, and -- if you create a free login -- vote on the ballots. The program is intelligent: As you accept or reject ballots, it uses your tendencies (are you throwing out lots of challenged ballots? Or accepting that the word "satan" written over Coleman's name is a vote for Franken?) to predict whether, after all the challenged ballots are considered (with you ...
Daily Digest: More Creativity from the Obama Transition
techPresident —
... As the battle between Norm Coleman and Al Franken in the Minnesota Senate race reaches its one-millionth day, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Tribune wants readers to help make sense of the stray marks and odd scrawlings marring contested paper ballots ( ...
Analysis Shows Franken Catching Coleman
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
... has performed its own analysis of the challenged
ballots in Minnesota's disputed U.S. Senate race "by relying on a virtual 'canvassing board' of more than 26,000
readers who examined at least some of them. There appeared to be
widespread consensus that Al Franken (D) won slightly more disputes than
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), enough to theoretically erase the incumbent's narrow lead by
late Monday." ...
Is Al Franken Trailing by Just Two Votes?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... But here's the reason to despair, er, worry: the Star-Tribune readers project that Franken will ultimately pull ahead by 40 votes once all of the challenge ballots have been reviewed. Readers are able to ...
Franken projects: I’ll win by 35-50 votes
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... to count? Because: (a) the Star-Tribune’s readers have been looking at and voting on those challenges for weeks and their polling puts him 40 votes ahead when all’s said and done; and (b) per ...
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startribune.com 11/25/2008 — Featured comment Close comment The righty posts here are just plain nuts. They have melted down completely. To change the subject back to the article, Coleman is challenging ballots in order to maintain his "lead" read more in the recount. Franken is ...
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