nytimes.com - 1/7/2009
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Many voters said the sniping over a still-unfilled Senate seat could hurt Norm Coleman, the Republican incumbent, in particular. >
foxnews.com - 1/6/2009
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foxnews.com —
Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit Tuesday in a
Minnesota court to challenge the results of the state's...
Senate recount -- a move expected to block Al Franken's path to the U.S. Senate, at least temporarily. The state Canvassing Board on Monday gave Franken ...
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Coleman Files Lawsuit to Contest Minnesota Senate ...
blogs.wsj.com - 1/8/2009
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blogs.wsj.com —
Brad Haynes reports on Congress. Norm Coleman is
challenging Al Franken ’s victory in the U.S. Senate...
race in Minnesota, casting doubt on the fairness of the states recount and clouding Democrats hopes of gaining another seat in the ...
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Coleman Challenges Senate Recount in Minnesota
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... most attention after he was barred from taking the oath of office. As Mr. Burris described it in his brief remarks, Senate officials had “advised that my credentials were not in order and I would not be accepted and I would not be seated and I would not be permitted on the floor.” Mr. Franken, meanwhile, did not appear in Washington on Tuesday. Though Minnesota elections officials have certified the results of the Senate recount there, which put him ahead of incumbent Norm Coleman, a legal challenge by the Coleman campaign has thrown the contest into double ...
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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 ...
Minnesota elections board says Franken won
thehill.com 1/5/2009 — The Minnesota Board of Canvassers certified Democrat Al Franken as winner of the state’s Senate race, but incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R) attorneys have vowed to challenge the decision. After two months of political and legal wrangling by both ...
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
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 ...
Franken Declared Winner in Minnesota Senate Race
abcnews.go.com 1/5/2009 — Two months after Minnesota voters went to the polls, Democrat Al Franken has been declared the winner of the U.S. Senate race, but his opponent, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, is ready to challenge the results in court. Franken, the comedian and ...
Shameless. Dems Steal Minnesota Senate Seat From Coleman
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 1/5/2009 — Al Franken said it best: Republican Norm Coleman led by 725 votes on election day. But after the recounts, the democrats in Minnesota mysteriously discovered nearly a thousand votes to give Al Franken a lead in the US Senate race over Coleman. ...
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 ...
Minnesota Recount: Absentee ballots opened today
hotair.com 1/5/2009 — The Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken will reach its natural conclusion today with the opening of as many as 2,000 absentee ballots mistakenly rejected on Election Night … [...] Read the rest »
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