thehill.com - 1/6/2009
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that while Democrats will not seek to seat Democrat Al Franken today, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) should concede the election. In his inaugural address to the 111th Congress, Reid referred to the Minnesota Senate seat as a Democratic seat and to ...
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"
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
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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Reid Calls on Coleman to Concede
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... The Senate majority leader says the incumbent GOP Senator should "respect the will of the people of Minnesota" and concede to Franken.
"This is a difficult time for former Sen. Coleman and his family, and he is entitled to the opportunity to concede this election graciously. But we cannot let this drag on forever."
Coleman has a presser scheduled in St. Paul at 4 pm ET. ...
Reid Calls on Coleman to Concede
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said that while Democrats will not seek to seat Al Franken (D) today, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) should concede the election, The Hill reports. ...
The latest on the Franken/Coleman contest
Sister Toldjah —
... Unsurprisingly, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid disagrees and believes that Coleman should throw in the towel. For whatever you feel about Coleman, and I know there are a lot of conservatives out there who aren’t crazy about him, the embarassment alone of having Al “ ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Count every vote, Republican style
powerlineblog.com 1/22/2009 — When the canvas of local tallies was completed by local election officials after election day, Al Franken trailed Norm Coleman by roughly the same number of votes that Coleman trails Franken following the recount (225). Some twelve thousand absentee ...
Coleman speaks!
politico.com 12/23/2008 — Blog: For the first time since the Minnesota Senate recount began, Sen. Norm Coleman briefly talked to a Minneapolis TV station about the recount
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