tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/7/2009
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Minnesota has just finished counting the 351 previously-rejected ballots approved by the three-judge panel as having been legally cast and rejected in error. The numbers: Al Franken 198, Norm Coleman 111, Other 42.
This means that Al Franken's lead has increased from the 225 he had going ...
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If he keeps up the fight, he is
likely to lose, unnecessarily deprive Minnesota of a second...
senator, end his political career seen as a sore loser, and hurt his party in a state that is eager for this fight to be over. His team has talked enough about ...
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Why Coleman Should Drop Out
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A Landslide by Minnesota Standards
Talking Points Memo —
... Al Franken's lead has swelled from 225 votes to 312 votes, after the last of the previously uncounted ballots are tallied in the Minnesota Senate recount trial. ...
MN-Sen: Franken Winning Margin Expands To 312
TalkLeft —
... The Minnesota Senate contest is a foregone conclusion, as it was when it started, Al Franken won the election. Today, at the direction of the Minnesota Election Contest Court, Minnesota counted more ballots. The result? Franken's 225 vote lead expanded to a 312 vote lead. Apparently, the more votes Coleman asks to be counted, the larger Franken's lead becomes. ...
MN-Sen: Al "Landslide" Franken pads lead, wins vote count
Daily Kos —
... -- whether to count the 133 missing ballots and what to do about the 100 double-counted votes the Coleman campaign claimed (with zero evidence) were cast. More likely than not, those final two issues will be dispatched in Franken's favor, but worst case scenario, losing those two claims would net Coleman just 146 votes, clearly not enough to overcome Franken's lead. The "counting the votes" phase of this election is finally over, six months after the election. All that's left now is the appeals. ...
Why I've Been Ignoring the Minnesota Recount
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... It was predictable, therefore, that when Coleman finally succeeded in getting Minnesota to count some additional absentee ballots yesterday, they turned out to increase Franken's lead. ...
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Poll: Minnesotans Want Coleman To Concede, Franken To Be Seated
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Is Al Franken Trailing by Just Two Votes?
weeklystandard.com 12/19/2008 — The AP puts Norm Coleman's lead at 2 votes, causing Allahpundit and Kathryn Lopez , among others, to despair. There may be good reason to be anxious, if not desperate, but not because of the AP count.
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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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Minnesota Court: No To Coleman, And Yes/No/Maybe To Franken
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/24/2009 — The Minnesota election court handed down two rulings tonight, one of which should be regarded as an unambiguous defeat for Norm Coleman -- and the other should probably leave Al Franken cautiously optimistic.
First, the court completely denied ...
Why we keep questioning the recount
scsuscholars.com 1/22/2009 — Suppose you are an election official in a precinct. You are collecting ballots with a machine that measures people as they come through the door. At one point your machine breaks down. You replace the machine with a backup, but you fail to turn that ...
Editors: Remember Count Every Vote?
article.nationalreview.com 2/4/2009 — D emocrats want to declare an end to the Minnesota Senate race, with Al Franken the winner and Norm Coleman the sore loser. In an appearance with Franken last week, Harry Reid averred: The race in Minnesota is over with. . . . There s no way the ...
Franken vs. Coleman: Our Top 10 Moments
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 6/30/2009 — It's been a strange eight months following the Minnesota elections. Here are 10 of our very favorite moments (post election), care of TPMDC reporter (and Franken-Coleman authority) Eric Kleefeld:
Nov. 5: Franken Says Race "Too Close to Call"
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Final tallying begins in MN senate trial —
CNN Political Ticker 4/7/2009
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) — The trial to resolve Minnesota's disputed U.S. Senate race may soon be over — but get ready for appeals, say attorneys involved in the case.
The three judge panel on Tuesday is reviewing and potentially counting ...
AP: Franken's lead grows to 312 —
First Read 4/7/2009
From NBC's Mark MurrayThis has to be a bit ironic: In the three-judge trial that Norm Coleman (R) asked for, it turns out that Al Franken's lead has grown, after the addition of some 350 absentee ballots to the count. Coleman's camp, of course, wanted ...
The Franken-Coleman spin war —
First Read 4/7/2009
From NBC's Mark Murray and Harry Enten In a conference call with reporters, Al Franken attorney Marc Elias said that after today's absentee ballot count in Minnesota -- in which Franken built on his 225-vote lead -- there is no doubt that the ...
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