powerlineblog.com - 1/7/2009
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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 5 to the emergence of Al Franken with a 225 ...
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
reuters.com - 1/6/2009
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reuters.com —
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
yielded to Republican threats and agreed on Monday not
to immediately seat fellow Democrat Al Franken, whose razor-close victory in Minnesota faces legal challenges. Senate Republicans had ...
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Senate Democrats put off plans to seat Franken
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Minnesota Senate Race:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
... phase was lengthened by litigation, there was not much time left for the contest phase before the electoral college clock ran out.) While highly critical of Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, they have also been a voice of calm adhering to what my former colleague Professor Dale Nance has called the "presumption of civility." We ought not presume without evidence that a fellow citizen has violated his or her moral duties to the community. For example, today Scott Johnson posts Overtime in the Minnesota Senate election in which he offers an evaluation of the Coleman team's ...
"Outhustled and outsmarted"
The Corner on National Review Online —
[image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] Wednesday, January 07, 2009 [image] "Outhustled and outsmarted" [ Rich Lowry ] Scott Johnson on why Franken has been beating Coleman . 01/07 12:01 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2009. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us
Squandered Not Stolen
Fraters Libertas —
Scott Johnson has an excellent post at Power Line that seeks to clear up some of growing misconceptions about the Senate recount : The portrayal of Senator Coleman as a victim akin to Dino Rossi in the Washington recount fiasco is misleading. Friends of ours who have observed the process up close and who know the players managing it on behalf of Senator Coleman share our misgivings regarding this portrayal. Senator Coleman has acted a bit like an NFL team sitting on a two-point lead in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter and playing zone defense. He could have been much ...
Minnesota Recount: Coleman files election contest
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... the race, the crowd shouted in chorus, “No!” It should be emphasized that election challenges are part of the lawful proceedings. They make sense when conducted properly and for some substantial reason. In an election where two candidates who received over 2 million votes in the aggregate ended up separated by less than 0.01% of those votes, the conduct of the election and the recount should receive great scrutiny. Unfortunately, as my good friend Scott Johnson explains at Power Line today, it may be too little, too late. Al Franken and his team understood how to win ...
On the Importance of Strategy in War & Politics
GayPatriot —
... The Israeli military has clear plans. It has a strategy for victory. Something which Norm Coleman lacked in the Minnesota recount. And John McCain in the most recent presidential campaign. ...
Franken-Coleman Recount: How Far Will It Go?
Firedoglake —
... Meanwhile, local blogger Centristy debunks Norm's "duplicate voting" allegation (h/t REW at Blog of the Moderate Left).
By the way, remember the Wall Street Journal's editors' bizarre smear launched against the State Canvassing Board? The one I referenced in my update yesterday? That turkey stank so badly, even the far-right dudes at Powerline, a local right-wing blog, had to protest it (h/t Keith Pickering): ...
GOP Loses Senate Seat to Misogynist Clown. Nicely Done, Guys.
The Sundries Shack —
Thanks, Republican Party. Thanks a whole heaping pile . Stuart Smalley For the next six years we’ll have to put up with this angry , nasty , misogynist , anti-Christian wretch of a human being, thanks to a fabulously wretched campaign by Norm Coleman . Seriously, if the GOP can’t beat Al Franken, who on Earth can they beat?
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bradblog.com 12/13/2008 — We've been on the road for several weeks, and haven't been able to report on the day-to-day details of the hand-count of the razor-thin U.S. Senate race in Minnesota between incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman (R) and challenger Al Franken (D). Happily, the ...
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