news.aol.com - 1/7/2009
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Norm Coleman's decision to file a suit contesting Al Franken's 225-vote recount "win" in Minnesota is interesting to me, inasmuch as it could result in his remaining in the senate -- or in his being viewed as a "sore loser" Former Republican governor Arne Carlson agrees , saying today: "I ...
politico.com - 1/6/2009
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politico.com —
January 05, 2009 Categories: Minnesota Reid: Coleman will
"never ever serve" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid offered...
the toughest language he has ever used in arguing that Norm Coleman s career in the Senate is finished. Norm Coleman will never ever ...
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Reid: Coleman will "never ever serve"
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/8/2009
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
I've been reading through the lawsuit that Norm
Coleman has filed against the result of the Minnesota...
Senate race, and it's a marvelous thing. The complaint ignores the existence of counter-evidence, employs one maneuver when it is self-benefiting ...
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Coleman's Lawsuit: This Whole Election Stinks -- And I Won
powerlineblog.com - 1/7/2009
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powerlineblog.com —
The media coverage of the events related to
Minnesota's Senate election and subsequent recount has been so...
poor that it is difficult to determine what happened. The erosion of Senator Coleman's approximately 700 vote lead over Al Franken on November ...
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Overtime in the Minnesota Senate election
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Matt Lewis: Coleman's Lawsuit Risks Harming His Image
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Most of us would probably agree that Al Franken's come-from-behind "victory" looks extremely fishy, to say the least. Having said that, I'm also of the opinion that Norm Coleman must be extremely careful regarding how he contests this election. As history has shown us, the public often ...
Franken-Coleman Update: The Long Goodbye
Firedoglake —
... , he's pretty much queered any future attempts by him at electoral politics. Even some conservatives, like blogger Matt Lewis, see this. (Coleman might, if it's still open once he's finished wasting the time of the three-judge contest panel and/or the Minnesota Supreme Court, have a shot at being RNC Chair, but he'd need for all the other candidates for the job to take each out before this could happen.) ...
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Coleman's best hope is in court
startribune.com 1/5/2009 — Nearly seven weeks after Norm Coleman entered the recount with a slim lead, his chances of retaining his U.S. Senate seat now depend increasingly on his bid to count hundreds of rejected absentee ballots from mostly Republican-leaning precincts. The ...
Senate recount: It's unlikely Coleman will win in court
minnpost.com 1/8/2009 — Senate recount: It's unlikely Coleman will win in court
By Eric Black | Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
Norm Coleman's statement announcing that he would contest the election result struck the right tone. But it seems unlikely that the courts will ...
MN-Sen: Petty partisan politics from GOP
dailykos.com 1/2/2009 — The open question in Minnesota's Senate race is no longer who will win, but when he will be seated. As TPM's Eric Kleefeld outlines , Al Franken has effectively won, but because Norm Coleman is playing the part of a sore loser, Minnesota's senate ...
Franken Moves To Throw Out Coleman's Lawsuit -- Or At Least Some Of It
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 3/6/2009 — Al Franken's legal team has now filed their expected motion to dismiss each and every single one of Norm Coleman's legal claims in the election contest -- that is, asking that either the whole case be thrown out, or at least that some of the claims ...
Can Coleman Win?
weeklystandard.com 1/6/2009 — Over the weekend, Al Franken's lead over Norm Coleman jumped to 225 votes after officials counted about 1,000 absentee ballots that had been wrongly rejected due to clerical errors. This afternoon, the Minnesota canvassing board certified that ...
The Good News for Coleman...
fivethirtyeight.com 1/7/2009 — ...is that the Minnesota Supreme Court's order (.pdf) today didn't make any judgment whatsoever about the merits of Coleman's case on absentee ballots. It merely said that the time to resolve these things is during an election contest, not during the ...
Franken to Coleman: Where's The Beef?
fivethirtyeight.com 12/23/2008 — In a 26-page response (.pdf) filed on Monday with the Minnesota Supreme Court, Al Franken's campaign disputes Norm Coleman's claim that a significant number of ballots were double-counted in Minnesota, chiding Coleman's petition for a lack of ...
Coleman's Chances
corner.nationalreview.com 1/5/2009 — As has been discussed here, Sen. Norm Coleman now trails Al Franken by 225 votes in Minnesota. What options are left to the Coleman campaign, now that the Minnesota Supreme Court has denied his legal bid to include 654 absentee ballots in the recount ...
Franken is Winning, and Coleman Knows It
fivethirtyeight.com 12/20/2008 — Minnesota's Canvassing Board this afternoon completed the bulk of its review of challenged ballots. The Canvassing Board ruled upon 1,325 challenges, according to numbers prepared by the Star Tribune , including 852 challenges brought by the Coleman ...
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