Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid agreed to not seat Dem. Al Franken, the certified winner in Minnesota, and I will defend Reid (really!) on that call, but Reid also called on Norm Coleman to concede and step aside.
“This is a difficult time for former Sen. Coleman and his family, and he is entitled to the [...]
The Minnesota Supreme Court rejected Sen. Norm Coleman’s attempt to get absentee ballots rejected during the recount, considered. The ruling paves the way for the recount canvassing board to declare Democrat Al Franken the winner of the United States Senate seat from Minnesota.
The Minnesota Supreme Court today rejected a bid by Republican Norm Coleman to [...]
Democrat Al Franken has defeated Sen. Norm Coleman in the statewide recount.
DFLer Al Franken won an impressive share Saturday of what may be the last ballots tallied in the U.S. Senate recount, boosting his unofficial lead over Sen. Norm Coleman to 225 votes heading into a Monday meeting where the state Canvassing Board will certify [...]
The new United State Congress will actually meet before one of the election races from November is finalized. Word out of Minnesota is that wrongly rejected absentee ballots will be re-added in, but through a framework that takes the race into 2009.
Under the process, counties would be required to submit unopened wrongly-rejected absentee ballots to [...]
In an election that seemingly can’t end, DEM Al Franken believes he will defeat Sen. Norm Coleman by 30-35 votes.
Franken currently holds a slim lead over Republican incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman in the continuing Minnesota recount — the sole U.S. Senate contest still unresolved.
Marc Elias, the Franken team’s lead recount attorney, said in a press [...]
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1. Yes it is hard to believe, but one solid month after the historic Obama win and huge Democratic gains, there is still a United States Senate seat, undecided. There is also some funny stuff going on. Apparently, there are now 133 less ballots counted in [...]
It appears that with over 91% of the votes recounted, Democrat Al Franken has taken a slim lead over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The counting will continue and it is completely up in the air as to who will win, but at least this appears to be a bit of good news. Not bad news, [...]
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1. The Democrats and the President-elect are beginning work on the foundations of an aggressive half a trillion dollar economic recovery plan. Now that the Obama economic team is in place, the hard work [...]
As the recount continued Coleman’s lead surged again on Monday.
More than 78 percent of the votes had been recounted as of Monday night, and Republican Sen. Norm Coleman’s advantage over DFLer Al Franken stood at 210, according to a Star Tribune compilation of results reported to the secretary of state and gathered by the newspaper. [...]
Polling guru Nate Silver projects that Democratic challenger Al Franken will defeat Republican Senator Norm Coleman in the recount for the Minnesota Senate seat.
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