fivethirtyeight.com - 1/22/2009
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Norm Coleman, rather oddly, has decided to take a day job : Norm Coleman (R) has taken a job with the Republican Jewish Coalition while contesting Democrat Al Franken’s lead in the Minnesota Senate race, his campaign confirmed Thursday. In what could be seen as a sign that Coleman thinks his bid ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/27/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
We have seen the best thing that Norm
Coleman's legal team has done so far in this
election trial -- and it ain't pretty. This afternoon the Coleman team was bringing in rejected absentee voters to show that their ballots were improperly tossed. ...
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Coleman's Supposedly Friendly Witnesses Backfire
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/23/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
At a pre-trial hearing in the Minnesota election
lawsuit just now, Franken attorney Kevin Hamilton made a
striking accusation: That the Coleman campaign has been doctoring evidence. As an example, Hamilton showed two photocopies of a rejected ...
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Franken Legal Team: Coleman Is Doctoring Evidence
politico.com - 1/22/2009
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politico.com —
Last session's senior senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman,
still battling Al Franken to be seated in the
Senate, has taken a paid job as a consultant to the Republican Jewish Coalition, which harshly attacked Obama last fall, its executive director, ...
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Coleman takes a job
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MN-Sen: Building a villain
Daily Kos —
... , which would suggest he's no longer confident that he'll retain his Senate seat. So why drag the state through the process of a futile legal challenge while depriving it of representation in the Senate? Nate has a theory: ...
1/23: This Wasn't What We Had In Mind...
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... ' Markos Moulitsas agrees with Silver : "[Franken]'s got a history of hyper-partisan rhetoric that can be mined for direct mail pieces. He's also fairly recognizable as Bill O'Reilly 's top nemesis. But he's definitely no Hillary Clinton. So how can Republicans amp up the 'villain' quotient just a bit more? Claiming he stole the election helps, which helps explain why Coleman is persisting in a quixotic legal bid that no one gives any serious chance of succeeding. The facts of the matter are irrelevant. When all of this is said and done, conservatives will be convinced ...
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fivethirtyeight.com 1/7/2009 — ...is that the Minnesota Supreme Court's order (.pdf) today didn't make any judgment whatsoever about the merits of Coleman's case on absentee ballots. It merely said that the time to resolve these things is during an election contest, not during the ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/6/2009 — Norm Coleman has made it official: He is filing a lawsuit to challenge the election result in Minnesota, which he does not believe to be a valid count -- and he is making clear that for the sake democracy, Al Franken should not be seated in the ...
Coleman Running Out of Options in Minn. Race
newsmax.com 12/31/2008 — The counting of improperly rejected absentee ballots will probably increase Democratic challenger Al Franken's lead over incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman according to a new analysis of voting trends, effectively relegating Coleman to filing lawsuits ...
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First Read 1/22/2009
MINNESOTA: Roll Call checks in with Norm Coleman, who apparently was on the Hill yesterday as was competitor Al Franken. The paper called Coleman "noticeably relaxed" and "expressed confidence." “We believe that when the ballots that have been ...
Coleman takes a job
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Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/22/2009
Politico - Last session's senior senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman, still battling Al Franken to be seated in the Senate, has taken a paid job as a consultant to the Republican Jewish Coalition, which harshly attacked Obama last fall, its executive ...
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