powerlineblog.com - 12/7/2008
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With all votes now recounted, Norm Coleman has been re-elected to the Senate. I think. The Minnesota Secretary of State shows Coleman leading by 687 votes with 99.98% of precincts reporting--all but one. The Minneapolis Star Tribune shows Coleman with a 192 vote victory, with all ballots ...
Campaigns Dispute Minnesota Tally Before Key Board Decision
briefingroom.thehill.com 11/26/2008 — The campaigns of Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and Al Franken (D) wrangled over how large a margin separates the two candidates in Minnesota’s contested recount a day before the state’s Board of Canvassers decides whether or not to count as many as ...
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 ...
Minnesota Recount: Franken’s Sore Loser Strategy
hotair.com 11/29/2008 — The setback at the Canvassing Board has forced Al Franken to face the fact that he didn’t get enough valid votes to beat Norm Coleman in Minnesota’s Senate Race. With the rejection of his bid to get the panel to add in thousands of ...
New Signs That Recount Momentum May Be Swinging Back To Franken
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/2/2008 — There are three big pieces of news just out now, from a Franken campaign press briefing, that could potentially signal a comeback for him in this long-running election vote-count:
• Under the campaign's methodology , Franken narrowed the margin ...
Statistical Models Now Show Coleman as Slight Favorite
fivethirtyeight.com 12/2/2008 — With in excess of 90 percent of Minnesota's votes now having been recounted, our statistical models now show Norm Coleman as the favorite to retain his senate seat, although with a high degree of uncertainty and without accounting the effects of ...
Franken Lawyer: "We Are Going To Win"
huffingtonpost.com 12/3/2008 — The Franken campaign struck a tone of confidence on Tuesday, insisting that once the votes were counted the numbers will reveal that they had bested Norm Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race.
"I'm very confident that Franken is going to win," said ...
Franken Camp's Claim: We're Now Ahead!
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/3/2008 — In a briefing going on right now with reporters, Al Franken's lead recount lawyer Marc Elias made a stunning announcement: According to the campaign's methodology of tracking the recount results, they believe Al Franken now leads Norm Coleman by a ...
Franken's Good Day Shifts Odds on Recount
fivethirtyeight.com 12/3/2008 — Since our post earlier this afternoon suggesting that Norm Coleman was the slight favorite to win the re-count , Al Franken has gotten three pieces of good news which cloud the picture and may tilt the probabilities in his favor. The first is that, ...
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 ...
Is Al Franken Winning by 22 Votes?
weeklystandard.com 12/4/2008 — With 93 percent of votes recounted, the Minneapolis Star Tribune showed Norm Coleman ahead by 303 votes , but at a press conference today, the Franken campaign claimed that their candidate leads Coleman by 22 votes.
Why the different numbers?
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Franken Camp's Claim: The Hand Count Is Over -- And We're Up By Four Votes!
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/5/2008 — Four votes.
That's how many votes the Franken campaign just said they're leading Norm Coleman by, with the hand recount now officially finished. In other words, with every single precinct in Minnesota now done counting (except for the one where ...
Is Norm Coleman under federal investigation?
thinkprogress.org 12/7/2008 — Last month, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) came under fire in a lawsuit alleging that a donor, Nasser Kazeminy , used an insurance company that employs Coleman’s wife to pass money to Coleman illegally. After a watchdog group requested a federal ...
If Norm Coleman isn't under federal investigation, he should be —
Majikthise
Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota won't say whether he is under federal investigation. If he isn't, he certainly should be. Two lawsuits allege that Coleman's friend and campaign donor Nasser Kazeminy covertly funneled $75,000 to Coleman through a Texas oil services company Kazeminy controlled. ...
Coleman Wins Recount, Too, But Race Not Over —
Outside The Beltway | OTB
The recount of the Minnesota Senate race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democratic comedian Al Franken has concluded, with Coleman still slightly ahead. Still up in the air, though, is the fate of 133 “missing” ballots (which are almost certainly an accounting error) ...
Two-Thirds of Minn. Voters Expect Coleman to Win —
News
Most Minnesota voters expect Sen. Norm Coleman (R) to prevail in the recount of his race against Democrat Al Franken, according to a new poll.
The Rasmussen survey, taken Thursday evening, found that 67 percent of voters believe Coleman will win, 16 percent thought that Franken would win and 17 ...
Franken Claims 4 Vote Lead Over Coleman —
The Latest on Air America
Politico has the story :
With all but one precinct re-counted in the Minnesota Senate race, Franken campaign attorney Marc Elias is claiming Franken leads Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) by four votes.
The number from Franken's internal tally does not include the Minneapolis precinct ...
MN-Sen: Recount finished! (Kind of) —
Daily Kos
With the recount over, the Star Tribune gives Norm Coleman a 238-vote lead , but that doesn't include challenged ballots, which number about 5,400, pending negotiations between the campaigns to reduce the number of challenged ballots. While the official state results site hasn't been updated ...
Coleman-Franken—Update —
The Moderate Voice
In the never-ending battle between Norm Coleman and Al Franken (see “It’s Coleman! No, It’s Franken. No, Wait…”), it’s now about 130 ballots from Minneapolis that have gone missing.
According to last night’s “Missing ballots stall Minnesota Senate ...
It’s Coleman! No, It’s Franken. No, Wait… —
The Moderate Voice
The dog ate my ballot!
That excuse is about the only one we haven’t heard (yet) for destroyed, lost, misplaced, disappeared, missing, erroneous, unaccounted-for ballots in the now-eternal Senate race in Minnesota between Norm Coleman and Al Franken.
As of this morning, that race was still ...
Several Deep Breaths Reco’d for Minnesota, Nation —
The Moderate Voice
As the nail-biter of a U.S. Senate race in Minnesota creeps forward — with Democrat Al Franken and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman stagnating in a soup of perpetual non-motion — the shadow of self-perceived disgrace lengthens. While I can’t source the comments now — a ...
No Joke —
Norm Coleman must be thinking this is a joke . Al Franken is ahead in the Minnesota senate seat recount. Or not .
Finally the lizard people have spoken. One thing is clear. The votes don’t add up.
Franken Pulls Ahead by 22 Votes? —
The Latest on Air America
Sam Stein over at Huffington Post has the details:
Al Franken's campaign announced on Wednesday that, for the first time since the Minnesota recount began, the Democrat has actually pulled ahead of Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.
Speaking on a conference call with reporters, ...
Franken camp: 'We're winning' —
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]Politico[/b]
Al Franken's campaign attorney Marc Elias said today that, based on its latest internal tally, Franken has taken the lead over Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) for the first time in the recount process.
In a conference call, Elias said Franken leads Coleman by 22 votes ...
MN-Sen: Franken camp claims the lead —
Daily Kos
Spin ? In a briefing going on right now with reporters, Al Franken's lead recount lawyer Marc Elias made a stunning announcement: According to the campaign's methodology of tracking the recount results, they believe Al Franken now leads Norm Coleman by a margin of 22 votes. This would be the ...
Chuck Todd: Concern Troll —
Crooks and Liars
Download | Play Download | Play Call it the price of success, or something less flattering, but Chuck Todd is now just mailing it in by simply retelling what the serious people in Washington tell him. In this case it's "very senior Democrats" who are "concerned" what sort of ...
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