ap.google.com - 11/8/2008
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Most Minn. Senate 'undervotes' are from Obama turf By BRIAN BAKST 19 hours ago ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) An Associated Press analysis of votes in the tight, still-to-be decided race for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota shows that most ballots lacking a recorded choice in the election were cast in ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/10/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
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 ...
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Franken's Odds of Winning Recount May Be Long -- or Short
foxnews.com - 11/10/2008
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foxnews.com —
Monday, November 10, 2008 By John R. Lott
Jr. Minnesota is becoming to 2008 politics what Florida...
was in 2000 or Washington State in 2006 -- a real mess. The outcome will determine whether Democrats get 58 members of the U.S. Senate, giving them an ...
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Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud - Opinion
powerlineblog.com - 11/7/2008
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powerlineblog.com —
When the polls closed Tuesday evening, Minnesota's Secretary
of State's office showed that Norm Coleman had a...
725-vote win in his closely contested race against Al Franken. By the next morning, however, Coleman's victory was already shrinking. As ...
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What's Happening In Minnesota?
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Most Minn. Senate 'undervotes' are from Obama turf
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... and Democrat Al Franken, who are headed for a recount separated by the thinnest of margins a couple of hundred votes, or about 0.01 percent. About 25,000 ballots statewide carried votes for president but not for the Senate race. Although some voters might have intentionally bypassed the race, others might have mismarked their ballot, or optical scanning machines might have misread them. A recount due to begin Nov. 19 will use manual inspection to detect such ballots. Read more: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gMpTmr96V5hKIfyHT4Av... Meanwhile, Coleman is using the state's ...
'Daily Voting News' For November 08, 2008
The BRAD BLOG —
... Clerk says outcome of attorney’s race could be affected http://www.morningsun.ne...-source-of-machine-error
MI: Oakland County - Democrat wants recount of Oakland clerk race http://michiganmessenger...nt-of-oakland-clerk-race
MN: Tension escalates as recount fluctuates http://www.startribune.c...Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUs
MN: Most Minn. Senate 'undervotes' are from Obama turf http://ap.google.com/art...fyHT4Av4jsVQgrQD94AHS080
MN: ...
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Senate: 60 is still possible —
First Read 11/7/2008
From NBC’s Doug Adams The Democrats' road to 60 Senate seats isn't dead yet.
Yes, it's a long road, with a lot of twists and turns and "ifs," but it's still possible.
With the win in Oregon yesterday, they now have picked up six, and ...
Obama toasts Rahm
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The full 2-hour roast, with Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd and others is here.
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