fivethirtyeight.com - 11/24/2008
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The nightly, 8 PM update from the Minnesota Secretary of State now shows Norm Coleman with a nominal lead of 172 votes over Al Franken. According to the state's accounting, Franken has gained 43 votes on Coleman since the recount process began. However, the high number of challenges on both ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/23/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
As we wrote yesterday evening, the ever-increasing number
of challenged ballots in Minnesota is making it more...
and more difficult to determine the extent to which Al Franken is in fact gaining ground in the state's recount process. An analysis of ...
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Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes
startribune.com - 11/24/2008
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startribune.com —
Blog: The Big Question Here’s one way to
send a protest with your ballot This Anoka County...
voter was clearly ready for the end of campaign season. This ballot has an almost poetic quality. In case you have trouble reading it, the poem goes like this, ...
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Franken/Coleman Minnesota Senate recount news
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/26/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Minnesota's Canvassing Board today unanimously rejected a request
by the Al Franken campaign to mandate that absentee...
ballots initially rejected as invalid be reconsidered, essentially declaring that it does not have jurisdiction to do so. However, ...
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Minnesota Canvassing Board Punts on Rejected Absentee ...
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Minnesota Recount Update
Politics Daily —
... According to the Strib, Coleman is challenging 1600 ballots and Franken about 1500. If those were all resolved equally to the opponent, there wouldn't be much change, but the big question is whether Coleman's challenges are more substantive than Franken's. That I do not know. But Nate Silver is noting that the challenging is happening from both camps. ...
Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake —
... Obama's stimulus package: $500B?
Treasury, fed to boost consumer financing.
Minn. Senate recount update.
Georgia runoff within the margin of error.
Ted Kaufman tapped to replace Biden.
Fixing FEMA.
Blanket pardons coming for torturers?
The post-election racist backlash.
Bobby Jindal in Iowa.
Lizard People Could Be Decisive in Minnesota
Swampland —
... Math wiz Nate Silver, over at fivethirtyeight.com, uses his modeling magic and predicts that things are going well for Franken. "The various versions of the model project a Franken win by between 48 and 136 votes once all ballots are re-counted and all challenges are resolved," he writes. But Democrats can't celebrate yet, because the margin of error of Silver's analysis is plus or minus "at least" 200 votes. ...
Franken Coleman Update: Disappearing Ballots
Firedoglake —
... As of Monday night verging on Tuesday morning, I could give you an alleged recount lead number, but why bother? As Nate Silver says at FiveThirtyEight, there's really no point to it because the vast and growing number of ballots challenged and thus set aside is well over ten times as high as the current alleged lead of Norm Coleman's. Oh, what the hell: ...
Minnesota Recount Update, Not Optimistic
Open Left - Front Page —
... Nate Silver's models still show Franken pulling ahead, possibly by 100 votes or more. The idea is that Coleman's challenges are negating clear Franken votes while Franken's challenges are more often to ballots ruled void (double votes, scribbles, etc.). But based on the county-by-county patterns it seems optimistic to me. Tell me I'm wrong, please. ...
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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 ...
Coleman Lawyers Up
powerlineblog.com 11/28/2008 — With the Thanksgiving holiday, there hasn't been much news in the Senate recount contest between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. The Minneapolis Star Tribune shows Coleman with a 282-vote lead, with 88 percent of ballots recounted. It seems clear at ...
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
Stepping Back, Norm Coleman-Style
dailykos.com 11/14/2008 — First, a reminder of what Norm Coleman was saying the day after the election, when he was leading by 725 votes: "Yesterday the voters spoke. We prevailed," Coleman said Wednesday at a news conference. He noted Franken could opt to waive the ...
Franken to Coleman: Where's The Beef?
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 ...
Your One-Stop Guide to the Norm Coleman Scandal-Thon
blogs.tnr.com 10/31/2008 — Lawsuits! Shady associates! Dirty money! It's very hard
to keep track of what the hell's been going on in these final days of
the Norm Coleman-Al Franken showdown in Minnesota, so here's a little
cheat sheet for you to keep track. Rentgate : This ...
Coleman v. Minnesota Canvassing Board
fivethirtyeight.com 12/18/2008 — This afternoon, Minnesota's Supreme Court will take up Norm Coleman's request (PDF) to stop the counting of so-called "fifth-pile" absentee ballots in Minnesota. These are ballots that initially were rejected by the counties, but that upon further ...
Franken Coleman Recount
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com 11/26/2008 — The Coleman campaign continued its addition-by-subtraction campaign, challenging considerably more ballots than Franken's people did today in order to create an artificial "lead" of 231 (per the StarTribune ). Franken's campaign claims ...
Taking Stock Of The Coleman-Kazeminy Charges
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/14/2008 — As Norm Coleman gets set for a recount in his bid to hold onto his Minnesota Senate seat, it's worth considering where things stand on the allegations that surfaced in the waning days of the campaign about Coleman's relationship with his friend and ...
Nearly 3,000 ballots challenged in Minnesota —
CNN Political Ticker 11/25/2008
(CNN) – As the recount resumes this morning in Minnesota, the number of ballots being challenged is growing: Nearly three-quarters of all votes cast in the state’s Senate race have been recounted in the battle for Norm Coleman's seat. The recount, ...
MN Sen: The case of the missing ballots —
First Read 11/25/2008
From NBC’s Jeff Hanley The mystery of ‘missing ballots’ in Minnesota continues to plague both the Norm Coleman and Al Franken campaigns as the projected margin between the two candidates in the Minnesota Senate race narrows to just 84 ...
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