powerlineblog.com - 11/26/2008
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The Franken campaign and its allies such as Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman are now focusing on rejected absentee ballots. In today's Star Tribune Kevin Duchschere shows that Ritchie is now improvising in advance of the state Canvassing Board ...
Minnesota Senate Recount, Update III
powerlineblog.com 11/22/2008 — The Senate recount continues in Minnesota; well over half of all ballots will have been recounted by the end of the day. Challenges are increasing from both campaigns and tempers seem to be fraying, with the campaigns holding dueling press ...
Minnesota Senate Recount, Update IX
powerlineblog.com 11/27/2008 — The Coleman campaign has just issued the following press release that confirms the nightmare scenarios sketched out by John Fund in his Wall Street Journal column today:
ST. PAUL - Hours after the Franken campaign failed to convince the ...
Minnesota Recount Update
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 ...
Minnesota Senate Recount -- update 3 —
The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings Well, it goes on... and on... and on... With 82 percent of ballots recounted, Norm Coleman has a lead of 231 votes over Al Franken. (Check out the Star Tribune 's recount news page here . County-by-county results are here .) And it's a long way from being ...
Minnesota Recount Update —
Politics Daily
I've been watching the Minneapolis Star Tribune special site set up to watch the Minnesota Senate recount battle between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat challenger Al Franken. After starting the recount process with about a 200 vote margin for Coleman and then getting as close as near 100 ...
Minnesota Senate Recount -- update 2 —
The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings (For some good links, and more detailed analysis, see Update 1 from last Friday.) The recount continues. According to the Star Tribune , Coleman currently has a lead of 180 votes over Franken, with 68 percent of ballots recounted, up from a Friday lead of 120. ...
Minnesota Senate Recount, Update VI —
Power Line
It seems that the pace of the Minnesota Senate recount is slowing, with 82 percent of the ballots reportedly now recounted. It seems pretty clear that the votes the Franken campaign had hoped to uncover aren't there, so far. By the Minneapolis Star Tribune's count, Norm Coleman's lead has ...
Minnesota Senate Recount -- update 1 —
The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings Democratic challenger Al Franken seems to be narrowing the gap, but there's still a long way to go. Here's the latest from the Star Tribune : The U.S. Senate recount continued Thursday without major glitches across Minnesota, as tabulators and the volunteers ...
Minnesota Senate Recount, Update VII —
Power Line
A correspondent who has been working non-stop in the trenches since the Senate recount began describes Al Franken's most recent strategy: document every "error" or "problem" that occurs in the course of the recount, to prepare to attack the process if Franken loses:
Being involved daily ...
Minnesota Recount Update, Not Optimistic —
Open Left - Front Page
Norm Coleman now leads Al Franken by 231 votes according to the Star Tribune which is 16 more than he started with prior to the recounting. Of course the "real" margin has been almost entirely obscured by the more than 3,600 challenges lodged by the two campaigns. Nevertheless, I am not ...
Mini-Sota Update, Day 6 —
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right
The rates of challenged ballots keep on rising, with a gap opening up between the Coleman and the Franken campaigns: The reward for his hard work? Coleman now leads by 238 votes -- a larger margin than when he started the recount -- according to the Minnesota Secretary of State . As before, ...
Missing Ballots? —
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com
In the ongoing saga that is the Minnesota Senate recount, the Franken campaign told reporters today that there appears to be several hundred missing ballots, the Minneapolis Star Tribune...
Franken Coleman Update: Disappearing Ballots —
Firedoglake
As of Monday night verging on Tuesday morning, I could give you an alleged recount lead number, but why bother? As Nate Silver says at FiveThirtyEight , there's really no point to it because the vast and growing number of ballots challenged and thus set aside is well over ten times as high ...
Ballot Challenges Soar in Minnesota —
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
"The number of ballot challenges in the U.S. Senate recount surged again on Monday, passing 3,000 overall and clouding the question of who's picking up ground in the hotly contested race," the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
"More than 78% of the votes had been recounted as of Monday night, ...
Minnesota Senate Recount, Update IV —
Power Line
There's not much news from the weekend. With 73 percent of ballots recounted, the Minnesota Secretary of State's office shows Norm Coleman with a 25,384-vote lead over former comedian Al Franken. That doesn't mean much, since the precincts that haven't finished recounting yet are mostly in ...
Coleman Has Very Good Day In Minnesota Recount —
TPM Election Central
GOP Sen. Norm Coleman had a good day in today's round of the Minnesota recount, wiping out about two thirds of the gains that Al Franken had made so far in this never-ending roller-coaster of an election.
According to the latest numbers collected by the Star Tribune , Coleman is ahead by ...
MN-Sen: Franken within 140 votes —
Daily Kos
With 48% of the recount in Minnesota's Senate race complete, Democrat Al Franken has narrowed Republican Norm Coleman's lead from 215 votes to 140. The Minnesota Star-Tribune has an excellent page keeping track of the recount results as they come in. It certainly appears that a good number of ...
More Franken Shenanigans —
California Conservative
I just got an update from a loyal LFR reader who’s working at a recount center in a Twin Cities suburb. This person just told me that Team Franken is challenging ballots that have write-in candidates written in other races. Team Franken is allegedly arguing that write-in candidates ...
Franken-Coleman Recount Update: Is That Toast I Smell? —
Firedoglake
CNN screengrab via youtube.com
The recanvassing is done, the initial vote tally was certified, and now the full recount has begun for the 2008 US Senate race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken.
So far, things are looking good for Al. As Nate ...
Al Franken Pulls Closer to Norm Coleman in Recount —
Politics Daily
Courtesy of the Minneapolis Star Tribune , here' the latest from Minnesota, where a state-wide recount is underway in the Senate race between incumbent Republican, Norm Coleman , and Democratic challenger, Al Franken : By the end of the day Wednesday, the mandatory statewide ...
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