powerlineblog.com - 4/8/2009
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Minnesota's excruciatingly close Senate election between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and former unfunny humorist Al Franken is in the final innings of the post-election proceedings. Franken is of course a left-liberal Democrat about whom I have nothing good to say.
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thehill.com —
Senate Republicans are backing their beleaguered colleague in
Minnesota, saying former Sen. Norm Coleman should push his...
election case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Coleman has been battling Democrat Al Franken since November for the seat ...
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Senate GOPs back Coleman all the way
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Powerline Perspective On MN-Sen: Franken Won
TalkLeft —
I have had many a nasty thing or two to say about Powerline in my blogging life, but credit where due to Scott Johnson for a pretty fair appraisal of the Minnesota Senate recount. In an election this close, it really is basically a tie. But you count the votes as best you can. The Franken team was simply better. Johnson writes: Those who postulate Democratic shenanigans as the cause of Coleman’s difficulties fail to reckon with the December 18 decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court on the inclusion of previously rejected ...
In the End, What Doomed Norm Coleman Was His Leftward Drift
The Sundries Shack —
It’s all over but for the shouting and the randomly-fired futile lawsuit in Minnesota, where the human bag of grease and plegm Al Franken will be that state’s newest Senator. He beat Republican Norm Coleman, who still has to be wondering what in the heck happened that let the unfunniest human being in the multiverse whose most recent job involved crashing an entire radio network into the side of Mount Failure beat him? Scott Johnson , Power Liner extraordinare and Minnesota lawyer ...
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Serious Question
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Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes
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huffingtonpost.com 7/9/2009 — WASHINGTON — Al Franken became a senator on Tuesday, completing the transformation from comedian to politician.
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huffingtonpost.com 1/22/2009 — WASHINGTON — It's no joke: Senate Democrats are moving toward letting comedian Al Franken join the chamber while Republican Norm Coleman's election lawsuit is pending.
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Franken's Lead Grows In Minn.'s Senate Race —
Wash Post Elections 4/8/2009
Democrat Al Franken yesterday increased his small lead over Republican Norm Coleman in the protracted dispute over the race for a U.S. Senate seat representing Minnesota, but it remains unclear when the five-month legal battle will end.
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