marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/16/2009
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In some ways, Al Franken's 225 vote lead the Minnesota Senate race is an illusory number. That's his margin after the state canvassing board completed its recount. Why isn't he in the Senate?
Thank Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in trying to delay Blagojevich's ...
dailykos.com - 1/10/2009
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dailykos.com —
More great news for Norm Coleman, from our
new Research 2000 poll conducted on Thursday and Friday
for Daily Kos (MOE 4%): Do you favor or oppose Norm Coleman's legal challenge to Al Franken's victory? FAVOR: 34% OPPOSE: 47% NOT SURE: 19% ...
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MN-Sen: Minnesotans Oppose Coleman Lawsuit, Favor ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 1/17/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
And maybe, Norm Coleman is hoping, elections in Minnesota.
Call it a hunch, but a couple of recent articles suggest that Norm Coleman's goal might not be to pull ahead of Al Franken outright, but ...
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Is Coleman's Goal a Do-Over?
cqpolitics.com - 1/22/2009
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cqpolitics.com —
Democratic candidate Al Franken made a bid Wednesday
to short-circuit the court case that’s intended to give
Minnesota a winner in its closely contested Senate race. Attorneys for Franken argued that a state court should dismiss the lawsuit filed by ...
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Franken Makes Case To Let Senate Decide
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Coleman Comeback? From the 'It Ain't Over Till It's Over' File...
Politics Daily —
Regarding the ongoing Norm Coleman/Al Franken battle in MN, The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder has new post titled: Provocation of The Day: Coleman Could Still Win. He goes on to write that, "In some ways, Al Franken's 225 vote lead the Minnesota Senate race is an illusory number." ...
Is Coleman's Goal a Do-Over?
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... votes, and a second recount the Republican ahead by two votes. Nevertheless, the fact that this piece appeared in the Journal, which just last week had published an inflammatory editorial which misstated several basic facts about the recount process, suggests that these are the preferred talking points of the Coleman campaign -- talking points which evidently involve planting the seed of a re-vote in the public's head. Likewise, Marc Ambinder's piece in the Atlantic today invokes the possibility of a re-vote: ...
Matt Lewis: Coleman Comeback? From the 'It Ain't Over Till It's Over' File...
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Regarding the Norm Coleman / Al Franken battle in MN, The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder has new post titled: Provocation of The Day: Coleman Could Still Win . He goes on to write that, "In some ways, Al Franken's 225 vote lead the Minnesota Senate race is an illusory number." Meanwhile, ...
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Provocation of The Day: Coleman Could Still Win - A scenario for a GOP Win
That had consequences for the recount and the subsequent canvass. Where it becomes difficult for judges is in trying to reconciling disparate ...
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... Marc Ambinder said yesterday that the reason Al Franken wasn't already seated in the Senate is because Harry Reid made a scene about Burris. ...
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Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Hillary Rodham Clinton, two of the most influential members of the Senate, said goodbye to their colleagues yesterday, while the chamber welcomed Illinois's Roland W. Burris, a man it had tried to keep ...
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