wkbt.com - 1/16/2009
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Associated Press - January 16, 2009 1:14 PM ET ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The first major hearing about Republican Norm Coleman's election lawsuit will be held next Wednesday. During that hearing, the three-judge panel assigned to hear the case plans to consider Democrat Al Franken's motion to ...
dailykos.com - 1/10/2009
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dailykos.com —
More great news for Norm Coleman, from our
new Research 2000 poll conducted on Thursday and Friday...
for Daily Kos (MOE 4%): Do you favor or oppose Norm Coleman's legal challenge to Al Franken's victory? FAVOR: 34% OPPOSE: 47% NOT SURE: 19% ...
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MN-Sen: Minnesotans Oppose Coleman Lawsuit, Favor ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 1/17/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
And maybe, Norm Coleman is hoping, elections in Minnesota....
Call it a hunch, but a couple of recent articles suggest that Norm Coleman's goal might not be to pull ahead of Al Franken outright, but ...
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Is Coleman's Goal a Do-Over?
cqpolitics.com - 1/22/2009
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cqpolitics.com —
Democratic candidate Al Franken made a bid Wednesday
to short-circuit the court case that’s intended to give...
Minnesota a winner in its closely contested Senate race. Attorneys for Franken argued that a state court should dismiss the lawsuit filed by ...
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Franken Makes Case To Let Senate Decide
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Coleman Turns To Lawyer Representing His Major Benefactor
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Friedberg's role in Coleman's legal challenge came to light during a closed door meeting on Friday with attorneys for both campaigns and the three-judge panel overseeing the case, officials close to the election process tell the Huffington Post. ...
Coleman Turns To Lawyer Representing His Major Benefactor
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Friedberg's role in Coleman's legal challenge came to light during a closed door meeting on Friday with attorneys for both campaigns and the three-judge panel overseeing the case, officials close to the election process tell the Huffington Post. ...
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Minn. board gives Senate win to Franken
usatoday.com 1/5/2009 — The Canvassing Board's declaration started a seven-day clock for Coleman to file a lawsuit protesting the result, as his attorneys have said he would. If he doesn't, Franken will get the election certificate he needs to take the seat in Washington. ...
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 ...
Coleman's Lawsuit: This Whole Election Stinks -- And I Won
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/8/2009 — I've been reading through the lawsuit that Norm Coleman has filed against the result of the Minnesota Senate race, and it's a marvelous thing.
The complaint ignores the existence of counter-evidence, employs one maneuver when it is self-benefiting ...
Senate recount: It's unlikely Coleman will win in court
minnpost.com 1/8/2009 — Senate recount: It's unlikely Coleman will win in court
By Eric Black | Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
Norm Coleman's statement announcing that he would contest the election result struck the right tone. But it seems unlikely that the courts will ...
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 ...
Count every vote, Republican style
powerlineblog.com 1/22/2009 — When the canvas of local tallies was completed by local election officials after election day, Al Franken trailed Norm Coleman by roughly the same number of votes that Coleman trails Franken following the recount (225). Some twelve thousand absentee ...
Can Coleman Win?
weeklystandard.com 1/6/2009 — Over the weekend, Al Franken's lead over Norm Coleman jumped to 225 votes after officials counted about 1,000 absentee ballots that had been wrongly rejected due to clerical errors. This afternoon, the Minnesota canvassing board certified that ...
MN-Sen: Petty partisan politics from GOP
dailykos.com 1/2/2009 — The open question in Minnesota's Senate race is no longer who will win, but when he will be seated. As TPM's Eric Kleefeld outlines , Al Franken has effectively won, but because Norm Coleman is playing the part of a sore loser, Minnesota's senate ...
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First Read 1/15/2009
MINNESOTA: The Minnesota Supreme Court “said it would hear arguments on Franken's petition to get a certificate before the conclusion of a lawsuit by Republican Norm Coleman, but not until Feb. 5. The court order also granted Coleman's request to ...
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Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/16/2009
The Christian Science Monitor - Minnesota's efforts to resolve the nation's last undecided Senate election will last at least until February after the state Supreme Court said Wednesday it would take several weeks to consider Democrat Al Franken's ...
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