voices.washingtonpost.com - 12/4/2008
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The Minnesota Senate race could end up being decided by a few dozen votes. (Photo -- Reuters/Eric Miller) As the manual recount in the Minnesota Senate race between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken nears its conclusion, the...
huffingtonpost.com - 12/3/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Aides to Al Franken's senatorial campaign announced on
Wednesday that, for the first time since the recount
began, they were actually ahead of Sen. Norm Coleman. Speaking on a conference call with reporters, Franken's chief counsel Marc Elias said ...
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Franken Ahead 22 Votes Now, Campaign Says
fivethirtyeight.com - 12/2/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
With in excess of 90 percent of Minnesota's
votes now having been recounted, our statistical models now
show Norm Coleman as the favorite to retain his senate seat, although with a high degree of uncertainty and without accounting the effects of ...
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Statistical Models Now Show Coleman as Slight Favorite
startribune.com - 12/4/2008
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startribune.com —
An uproar Wednesday over 133 mystery ballots that
may or may not have disappeared in Minneapolis became
the newest controversy to roil the U.S. Senate recount. At issue was a discrepancy between Election Day and recount totals in one of the city's ...
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Franken's campaign protests 133 mystery ballots from ...
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Minnesota Senate recount, update X
Power Line —
... Yesterday the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza updated the Minnesota Senate recount under heading "Counting Chaos!" Yet the text of his update mostly belied the heading (and the exclamation mark). ...
MN Senate race count getting goofier by the day
Sister Toldjah —
... Chris Cillizza does his best to sort through the “he said/he said” coming out of Minnesota as ...
MORNING READ
News —
... race has devolved into chaos, according to bloggers keeping close tabs of the latest vote count. The argument that President-elect Barack Obama hasn't chosen a bipartisan Cabinet is dismissed by liberal blogs. And the Treasury department's latest plan to revive the housing market is received with skepticism from blogging economists on the left. Both Democrat Al Franken and Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) are claiming that they're winning the recount, which is so close that it reminds Chris Cillizza of a 1974 Senate recount in New Hampshire that was resolved by a revote. But ...
Several Deep Breaths Reco’d for Minnesota, Nation
The Moderate Voice —
As the nail-biter of a U.S. Senate race in Minnesota creeps forward — with Democrat Al Franken and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman stagnating in a soup of perpetual non-motion — the shadow of self-perceived disgrace lengthens. While I can’t source the comments now — a reminder that I should probably save/bookmark everything— I recall a number of recent reports quoting various Minnesotans who are “embarrassed” about their recount situation, which has been characterized by its repeated, back-and-forth challenges, ...
2010-- Here Already? Pennsylvania Senate Race Heating Up
DownWithTyranny! —
... his race yesterday, there are still a couple of 2008 congressional races yet to be decided-- the high profile Minnesota Senate recount, a ...
Related: counting mn votes
Still Counting & Counting & Counting & …
openleft.com 12/2/2008 — Although it is hard to believe, votes are still being counted for the 2008 presidential election. Obama's lead has reached 7.01% according to wikipedia , 52.81%--45.80%. However, both fivethirtyeight.com and the United States Election Project indicate ...
Franken Camp's Claim: The Hand Count Is Over -- And We're Up By Four Votes!
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/5/2008 — 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 ...
MN-Sen: Flip A Coin? —
TalkLeft
Charles Seife writes in today's NYTimes: Minnesota’s instruments for counting votes are simply too crude to determine the winner in a race this tight. . . . Luckily, Minnesota’s electoral law has a provision for ties. After all the counting and recounting, if the vote is ...
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