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Franken Suffers Major Setback in Minnesota Recount
Politics Daily —
... The Franken campaign was counting on those ballots to turn the tide in their favor. Canvassing board members were quick to make it clear they expect their decision to be litigated. ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... John Fund: An ideologically blinkered rant about the mechanics of a recount in a close election might have been interesting (the innocent and naive Coleman side is encountering hardball tactics from Frankin) – were it not for 2000. Paper ballots, at least, are available for the recount and not hanging chads. But nothing can compensate for idiots who write in Lizard People. ...
Board Unanimously Rejects Franken Petition to Include Rejected Absentee Ballots in Recount
Weekly Standard Blog —
... But the Franken campaign will almost certainly go to court in an attempt to include rejected absentee ballots. The issue could be decisive. John Fund sketches out the arguments of both campaigns in today's Wall Street Journal ...
Minnesota Senate Recount, Update IX
Power Line —
... The Coleman campaign has just issued the following press release that confirms the nightmare scenarios sketched out by John Fund in his Wall Street Journal column today: ...
'Daily Voting News' For November 26, 2008
The BRAD BLOG —
Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos —
... for a $40 government rebate to help pay for the product. And ever since she named her baby Bronx Mowgli, we can all be grateful that we are not related to Ashlee Simpson. On the downside, Collins points out that: ...we can never feel quite the same about turkey after that Sarah Palin video. Les Gapay describes Thanksgiving from the point of view of a homeless man. And that man is Les Gapay. John Fund says that the battle between Coleman and Franken has just begun. David ...
Senate Dems prepared to use one part of the Constitution to invalidate another
No Runny Eggs —
... This wouldn’t be the first time the ‘Rats have denied the winner of a Senatorial election his seat in order to expand a majority. John Fund recalls that, in 1975, despite already having 60 seats plus another member who caucused with them, they refused to seat New Hampshire Republican Louis Wyman, who ...
Al Franken Not Likely To Give Up Until Securing Fishy 'Victory'
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney —
... Already, Franken has tried and failed to have rejected absentee ballots added to vote totals. And according to John Fund in a recent Wall Street Journal piece, his campaign is using the template that saw Christine Gregoire steal Washington state's gubernatorial race four years ago: ...
Monday links
Maggie's Farm —
... media would not be satisfied with his resignation from Ways and Means, nor his apology. They would demand his prosecution for alleged felonies. Britain has lost the stomach for a fight. The emotion of "elevation" Walter Dellinger: The juicy bits of the Constitution (h/t Joe Carter) Obama's pair of Lysenkos 100% of top world terrorists are Presbyterians The ongoing battle for Minnesota. WSJ Dr. Bob on assisted suicide The housing bubble, from ...
