UPDATE 6:05 PM: Norm Coleman’s official lead is now down to 5 votes.
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It appears that Al Franken is on his way to taking a slim lead over Sen. Norm Coleman by the end of the day or early tomorrow, as the third day of the Minnesota State Canvassing More…
Sen. Norm Coleman’s counsel argued before the Minnesota Supreme Court today that wrongly rejected absentee ballots should not be counted in the U.S. Senate canvass, as their inclusion would represent “an invitation to go to Florida,” according to The Minnesota Independent.
But Justice Paul Anderson cut him off and More…
Don’t believe the headlines telling you that Sen. Norm Coleman’s lead over Al Franken in the Minnesota Senate recount is growing.
As the canvassing board plows through its second day of challenged ballot reviews (livestream here, resuming shortly after 3pm ET), Coleman’s official lead has grown to 328 More…
The Associated Press has done the dirty work of sorting through more than 5,000 challenged ballots in the Minnesota Senate recount, and its analysis should inspire some confidence in supporters of Democrat Al Franken:
The AP’s examination of the remaining challenges found:
- Fewer than half of the challenges
Two rulings today by the Minnesota Canvassing Board pushed Al Franken’s Senate campaign closer to electoral victory in the roller-coaster Minnesota recount, according to Politico.
First, the Board voted unanimously to count the 133 ballots that went missing last week. These ballots came from a Franken-friendly precinct in More…
In what could end up being the closest Senate race in U.S. history, Al Franken now claims a four-vote lead over incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in the Minnesota recount, according to our sister site, The Minnesota Independent.
The recount officially ended today, but by any reasonable measure, the More…
The Minnesota Senate recount keeps getting curiouser and curiouser.
After the Al Franken campaign claimed its first lead of the recount yesterday, it appeared to suffer a setback when 133 ballots from Democratic-leaning Minneapolis mysteriously vanished.
The Minnesota Independent reports that the Al Franken campaign has just claimed its first lead of the Minnesota Senate recount, by a margin of 22 votes.
The official count, as reported by the Star Tribune, still has Franken’s opponent, incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman, up by 295 votes. But this More…
Following up on Chris Steller’s elucidation of the Senate recount in Minnesota that’s left most pundits scratching their heads, several new reports show Al Franken might be the slight favorite to take the seat.
Yesterday, Talking Points Memo reported that the Franken campaign’s numbers show the Democratic candidate More…
For most of the year, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and his Democratic challenger, former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Al Franken, have been locked in a tight contest. But, as The Wall Street Journal reported today, the arrival of Independent candidate Dean Barkley, an advisor to former Gov. Jesse Ventura, More…
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