minnesota senate

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 votes. But that’s because only Franken’s challenges have [...]

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 race is far from over. More than [...]

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 official tally excludes the 6,000-plus challenged ballots [...]