redstate.com - 11/14/2008
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I spent six years as an elections lawyer. I handled
a lot of very wacked election canvasses
and recounts. One thing they all had in common: when new votes were
found, they generally went both ways -- a few for one candidate and
a few for the other candidate. It didn't quite follow the ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/12/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Although it might seem like we've already covered
all the ground there is to cover on the
Minnesota recount process, we may be able to draw some additional lessons from Florida's recount experience in 2000. In 2001, the National Opinion Research ...
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Minnesota Recount: Number of Discrepancies May Be Low
powerlineblog.com - 11/14/2008
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powerlineblog.com —
The Al Franken is using a series of
lawsuits to try to bully the ex-comedian's way into
the United States Senate. So far, though, they aren't going too well. Franken has demanded that Minnesota counties give him lists of would-be voters whose ...
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
nypost.com - 11/13/2008
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nypost.com —
Last updated: 4:12 pm November 13, 2008 Posted:
4:03 pm November 13, 2008 IF Al Franken wins
his Minnesota race, Democrats will get at least 58 US senators, giving them an effectively filibuster-proof majority. When Franken woke up on the day after ...
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FRANKEN 'FIXES' STALK SENATE RACE - New York Post
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Rachel Maddow Confuses Allegation With Fact in Covering for Ex-Air America Chum Al Franken
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... How odd indeed that during the recount before the recount, nearly all "newly discovered" ballots are breaking Franken's way. Erick Erickson at Red State blog elaborates -- ...
POLITICS: Keep Counting Until You Win
Baseball Crank —
... I haven't covered all the twists and turns of this lawyer-intensive effort, but a few to give you the flavor. Franken has been pressing to have all "undervotes" by Obama voters counted as votes for Franken on the theory that they are Democrats who undoubtedly meant to vote for Franken. The Orwellian name "undervote" aside, these are ballots where there's no vote marked for the race Franken was running in. It was silly to suggest, in 2000, that it was impossible for voters who voted Democrat in other races to have decided they really didn't want to vote ...
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So What's the Deal with Franken?
corner.nationalreview.com 12/4/2008 — Yesterday the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza updated the Minnesota Senate recount under heading "Counting Chaos!" Yet the text of his update mostly belied the heading (and the exclamation mark).
Two weeks after Election Day, incumbent Republican ...
Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes
fivethirtyeight.com 11/23/2008 — 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 ...
Franken's Odds of Winning Recount May Be Long -- or Short
fivethirtyeight.com 11/10/2008 — Votes counted in Minnesota's senate race: 2,833,089 Votes separating Norm Coleman and Al Franken: 221 Determining a candidate's odds of winning a recount is a function of three parameters. The first parameter is the margin separating the leading and ...
Minnesota's recount goes south
powerlineblog.com 12/14/2008 — This past Monday the city of Minneapolis announced that it was giving up the search for the 133 ballots that are allegedly missing from a heavily Democratic precinct. The 133 ballots netted Al Franken 46 votes. Up to that point the Franken campaign ...
More Minnesota Madness
fivethirtyeight.com 11/11/2008 — A Minneapolis-based Daily Kos diarist named 'bitwise' has done some further sleuthing on the impending Minnesota senate recount , which we had discussed at length this morning . Here's what he's found: The freshest data, pulled from the state website ...
Minnesota's recount goes south
powerlineblog.com 12/16/2008 — Tomorrow the Canvassing Board presiding over the recount convenes to consider challenged ballots that were excluded because of their disputed status from the recount. At the urging of the Canvassing Board, both the Coleman and Franken campaigns are ...
Minnesota Senate recount, update X
powerlineblog.com 12/4/2008 — This morning Kathryn Lopez asked me to update NRO's Corner readers on the Minnesota Senate recount. This was my report.
Yesterday the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza updated the Minnesota Senate recount under heading "Counting Chaos!" Yet the ...
Stealing Minnesota: Franken's ACORN
redstate.com 11/20/2008 —
We all know about ACORN right? The group masterfully steals
elections by overwhelming the system with fraudulent voter
registration applications that translate directly into voter fraud.
They stampede election centers causing chaos so votes can ...
Franken Lobbies the Canvassing Board
powerlineblog.com 12/11/2008 — In what may be one of the low points of modern political history, the Al Franken campaign has assembled a tear-jerker of a video, featuring Franken voters whose absentee ballots were allegedly rejected by mistake:
Why is Franken doing this? ...
Stealing Minnesota?
redstate.com 11/12/2008 —
“All the irregularities are benefiting Franken
against statistical probability. ”
Minnesota has become this year's Florida, but it is only at the
Senate level. Let me lay out the facts for you.
When all the votes were counted on ...
Schumer: 60 'possible but unlikely' —
First Read 11/13/2008
From NBC's Abby LivingstonIn his mission to crush a GOP filibuster, DSCC Chairman Chuck Schumer feels the chance of 60 Democratic senators this cycle is “possible, but unlikely.”
Briefing reporters this afternoon, the New York senator gave the ...
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Friday Nov. 14th, 2008 —
CNN Political Ticker 11/14/2008
CNN: Hillary Clinton's name mentioned as possible Secretary of State
Two sources close to the Obama transition team tell CNN that Senator Hillary Clinton’s name has been mentioned as a possible candidate for Secretary of State.
CNN: Poll finds great ...
Hillary raises money for Franken —
First Read 11/14/2008
From NBC's Chuck Todd and Mark MurrayHillary Clinton, though her HillPAC, has sent a solicitation to supporters asking them to donate money to Al Franken during the recount in Minnesota's Senate race. "The Franken campaign is working hard to ...
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