MN board to certify Franken's win in tight senate race
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com — MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) – A state election board on Monday will announce Democrat Al Franken as the winner of the Minnesota Senate race, defeating Republican incumbant Norm Coleman, state officials told CNN Sunday. Secretary of State Mark Ritchie told CNN the canvassing board on Monday will confirm that Franken won the race by a 225-vote margin. Deputy [...]
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John Bolton's Best Friend in Senate Will be Declared Loser to Al Franken
The Washington Note — ... Coleman is 225 votes short of victory after a massive recount of Minnesota ballots. Reports are leaking out that the State Canvassing Board will declare challenger ...

Worse Election Ever: State Board to Certify Franken Victory Tomorrow
Ace of Spades HQ — Worse Election Ever: State Board to Certify Franken Victory Tomorrow Stuart Smalley goes to Washington: A state election board on Monday will announce Democrat Al Franken as the winner of the Minnesota Senate race, defeating Republican incumbant Norm Coleman, state officials told CNN Sunday. Secretary of State Mark Ritchie told CNN the canvassing board on Monday will confirm that Franken won the race by a 225-vote margin. It might ...

Senator Al Franken
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... Democrat Al Franken will be declared the winner Monday. There is nothing post-partisan about Al Franken. Among other books, the new Democratic senator is the author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations and Lies and Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. ...

Senator Al Franken, In Tights, Impersonating Mick Jagger (Video!)
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... you!! Good Goddess, did I ever need a good laugh after that freaking bad year of 2008. There's more than one kind of diversity. And Al Franken in tights, impersonating Mick Jagger is just the kind of diversity desperately needed by that stuffy old mostly white millionaires club called the U.S. Senate! via Josh Marshall, who says: Now the truth can be told. MN board to certify Franken's win in tight senate race ...

Monday open thread
Sister Toldjah — ... One quick link: Franken’s supposed to be certified today in MN as the winner of the Senate race over Norm Coleman. I’m not sure where things stand with what Coleman’s next course of action - if any - is, but stay tuned to the Minnesota bloggers at ...

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