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fivethirtyeight.com - 11/20/2008
On First Day of Recount, Franken Gains Net of 43 Votes on Coleman
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According to data just released by the Minnesota Secretary of State , Al Franken has gained a net of 43 votes on the first day of that state's recount process. Norm Coleman had a lead of 215 voters over Franken in Minnesota's certified, pre-recount tally; that margin is now 172 votes. Minnesota ...
Recount, Day 2: Coleman and Franken gain votes
startribune.com - 11/20/2008
Recount, Day 2: Coleman and Franken gain votes
— startribune.com — Richard Sennott, Star Tribune Barb Cox, a Plymouth City Hall worker, holds a ballot that was challenged... by the Franken campaign today. (more) Recount, Day 2: Coleman and Franken gain votes

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startribune.com - 11/20/2008
Recount: Norm Coleman’s lead over Al Franken shrinks
— startribune.com — The Great Minnesota Recount kicked off Wednesday with masses of volunteers for Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman... and Democratic challenger Al Franken moving into a fresh phase of the struggle: eyeballing the first of 2.9 million ballots, ready to ... (more) Recount: Norm Coleman’s lead over Al Franken shrinks

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nypost.com - 11/20/2008
SOROS BOO$TS FRANKEN
— nypost.com — Left-wing billionaire financier George Soros is using his financial muscle at a Manhattan fund-raiser tonight to help... Al Franken win a recount in Minnesota's Senate election. Soros - the hedge-fund honcho and sugar daddy of the Democratic Party -... (more) SOROS BOO$TS FRANKEN

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Daily Kos:  MN-Sen: Coleman lead down to 172 votes

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MN-Sen: Coleman lead down to 172 votes
Daily Kos — Nate Silver: According to data just released by the Minnesota Secretary of State, Al Franken has gained a net of 43 votes on the first day of that state's recount process. Norm Coleman had a lead of 215 voters over Franken in Minnesota's certified, pre-recount tally; that margin is now 172 votes. Minnesota reports that it has thus far re-counted 15.49 percent of its ballots. If the first day's results are indicative of the pace that the candidates will maintain throughout the recount process, Franken would gain a net of 278 votes over Colmean, ...

MORNING READ
News — ... , also at The Huffington Post. Franken gained a net of 43 votes during the first day of the recount, reducing his deficit to 172 votes. Four-fifths of the vote have yet to be recounted, and many of those ballots come from Democratic counties, writes FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver . Franken and Democrats are trying to steal the election by challenging votes that were obviously cast for Coleman, writes RedState's ...

The Race To 60: Alaska, Minnesota, Georgia
DownWithTyranny! — ... Nate Silver has a more comprehensive analysis of what happened yesterday than the Star Tribune, although the same ending, of course: a shrinking margin for Coleman (now 172 votes). The important thing to remember is that Democratic strongholds in Minneapolis and Duluth are yet to come in with their numbers, which are expected to overwhelmingly favor Franken. ...

Al Franken closing in on Norm Coleman
Crooks and Liars — ... Yesterday kicked off the first day of the Minnesota recount and while a whole host of ballots still need to be tabulated, things are looking good for Al Franken. There is still substantial ground to be made up, but a net gain of 43 votes is a pretty good start. Nate has more. ...

Franken-Coleman Recount Update: Is That Toast I Smell?
Firedoglake — ... 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 Silver explains: ...

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Lawyer Alert: Minnesota Senate Race Recount Set To Get Underway
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/19/2008 — Get ready -- the recount in the knock-down-drag-out Minnesota race is set to start tomorrow, following this afternoon's certification of GOP Sen. Norm Coleman's lead of only 215 votes over Al Franken. The hand count could cause quite a few ballots ...
Franken Makes Gains In First Day Of Recount, But It's Far From Over
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/20/2008 — The first day of the Minnesota recount is behind us, and it's been a good day for Al Franken. GOP Sen. Norm Coleman's lead has been reduced from 215 votes to 174, a decrease of 41 votes, with 18% of precincts recounted. Franken's biggest gains ...
Coleman's Lead Shrinks Again
politicalwire.com 11/21/2008 — In Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, with about 46% of the 2.9 million ballots counted by last night, the gap between Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) and challenger Al Franken (D) continued to shrink, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Coleman now leads by ...
Franken!
talkingpointsmemo.com 11/21/2008 — Slowly but surely, the Minnesota recount is whittling away at Norm Coleman's lead. With 46% of the ballots now recounted, Coleman's initial certified lead of 215 has fallen to 136 . There's no real reason why the rate of change should remain at the ...
Coleman's Lead Down to 120 as Challenges Skyrocket — FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right
According to figures compiled by the Star Tribune , Norm Coleman now holds a lead of 120 votes over Al Franken. Coleman's lead before the recount began had been 215 votes. A majority of the state's ballots -- some 64 percent -- have now been recounted. The counties re-counted to date were ...
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 ...
Coleman's Lead Less 100 Votes — The Latest on Air America
NBC's Jeff Hanley reports: Marc Elias, lead attorney for the Franken campaign, in a teleconference call today declared that the gap in votes between Al Franken (D) and Norm Coleman (R) is now only separated by a double-digit total vote margin Citing evidence from Franken recount ...
Franken claims Coleman's lead is down to double digits — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]The Hill[/b] By Michael O'Brien Posted: 11/21/08 01:18 PM [ET] Al Franken's campaign claimed Friday that Sen. Norm Coleman's (R-Minn.) lead has fallen into the double digits as the state continues its recount of the hotly contested Senate race. The Franken camp is using a ...
Franken Camp: Coleman's Lead Down To Double Digits — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Aides to Al Franken's campaign said on Friday that the deficit they face against Norm Coleman in their Senate recount is now less than 100 votes. "It is fair to say that Norm Coleman's lead is now in the double digits," said Marc Elias, a lawyer for the campaign. He added, more ...
Franken Narrows Coleman’s Lead in Minnesota Senate Recount — The Moderate Voice
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 watching them settled ...
MN Recount Continues: Franken Gain Ground, Coleman Still Leads — PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts
Via the Strib : Day 2: 46 percent of ballots recounted; Coleman’s lead slips With about 46 percent of the 2.9 million ballots counted by Thursday evening, the gap between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and DFL challenger Al Franken continued to close. Coleman was leading by only 136 ...
Franken Gaining But It Will Be Very Close in Minnesota — Open Left - Front Page
Norm Coleman's lead over Al Franken is down to 136 votes from the original pre-recount deficit of 215. To get an idea of where this is going let's break Minnesota down into three roughly equal parts: Part of the Minnesota Vote Original Votes % Recounted Franken Margin Still to ...
Franken slices further into Coleman's lead — AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
Day two of the recount in Minnesota has concluded. I'll admit to being a little obsessed -- I really can't stand Norm Coleman. He's loathsome. Based on my math, using the "official" Minnesota Secretary of State's numbers , Al Franken has picked up 86 votes since the recount started. That would ...
Day Two of Coleman-Franken Recount Sees Dem Pickups — News
Democrat Al Franken has picked up an additional six votes in the recount for Minnesota's Senate race, leaving incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman (R) with a 168-vote lead in the race. Each candidate gained votes Thursday, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported, with Franken gaining 19 votes to Coleman's ...
Can Franken Win? Yes, He Could, Maybe. — TPM Election Central
So what exactly is going on in the Minnesota recount, and can Al Franken overcome GOP Sen. Norm Coleman's statistically tiny lead form the initial vote count? The answer is a definite maybe. Franken got a big boost yesterday when the first wave of recounting cut Coleman's lead from 215 ...
Franken Cuts into Lead — The Latest on Air America
The recount in Minnesota is only a day old (18 percent completed) and there is already some good news: Al Franken has gained some ground on Republican incumbent, Norm Coleman. The gap between the two candidates was 215 votes but now has diminished to 174 votes.  The swing of pro-Franken ...
Al Franken Challenges Ballot in Minnesota Senate Race — Gateway Pundit
This one-- Via American Spectator . Meanwhile, Senator Norm Coleman's lead continues to shrink in the Minnesota recount. The Star-Tribune reported: The Great Minnesota Recount kicked off Wednesday with masses of volunteers for Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic ...
Coleman's Lead Over Franken Shrinks To 174 Votes — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports : The Great Minnesota Recount kicked off Wednesday with masses of volunteers for Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken moving into a fresh phase of the struggle: eyeballing the first of 2.9 million ballots, ready to ...
Coleman's Lead Over Franken Shrinks To 174 Votes — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports : The Great Minnesota Recount kicked off Wednesday with masses of volunteers for Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken moving into a fresh phase of the struggle: eyeballing the first of 2.9 million ballots, ready to ...
Coleman's Lead Shrinks in Recount — Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Based on a Minneapolis Star Tribune analysis of partial recount numbers released in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) lost a net of 41 votes and now holds a 174-vote advantage over challenger Al Franken (D). He started the day up by 215. "These new numbers come after the ...
Franken Gets Big Boost From Key Legal Victory, But Long Road Still Ahead — TPM Election Central
Al Franken won a big court victory today, one that could help him significantly in his battle to overcome Norm Coleman's current 215-vote lead in the Minnesota recount. A judge ruled in favor of the Franken campaign's request that Ramsey County (St. Paul) turn over to Franken all the ...
MN-Sen: Recount underway — Daily Kos
The long recount process for Minnesota's Senate race is under way : The recount is being carried out in more than 100 sites. It is required under state law because the votes cast for Coleman and Franken differed by less than 0.5 percent. Coleman's 215-vote lead heading into the recount ...
Minnesota Recount Begins with Coleman Lead — Politics Daily
Today the official recount begins in the Minnesota Senate race between incumbent Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken. The recount was triggered by the narrowness of the margin between the two candidates on election night. The margin narrowed significantly, not to mention questionably, over ...
Coleman Still Ahead; Recount Likely to Start Tomorrow — PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts
Via the Strib : Al Franken’s vote-tally appeal blunted the five-member state Canvassing Board prepared to meet at 1 p.m. today in St. Paul to review results showing Republican Sen. Norm Coleman with a lead of 215 votes out of more than 2.9 million cast. [...] The difference is well ...
Franken camp claims closer margin — First Read
Counting Conundrum: The ongoing Minnesota recount saga From NBC’s Jeff Hanley Marc Elias, lead attorney for the Franken campaign, in a teleconference call today declared that the gap in votes between Al Franken (D) and Norm Coleman  ...