Talk of a Republican-backed recount of a tightly-contested Wisconsin Supreme Court election has been put on hold for now following the revelation that over 14,000 votes from the strongly-Republican Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield were left out of initial vote counts. The Brookfield votes have taken Republican incumbent State More…
In a piece published today, TWI detailed how a recount in the gubernatorial race between Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer might play out. Dayton holds a significant lead, just shy of 9,000 votes, a margin that is still close enough to trigger an automatic recount unless the More…
Haunted by memories of the 2008 Senate election between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, Minnesota is bracing for yet another contentious recount, this time to determine the state’s next governor.
Just as the drawn-out recount in 2008 had national implications — for months, Franken was prevented from becoming the More…
When most East Coasters could no longer follow the returns from sheer exhaustion, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) had fallen behind challenger Ken Buck (R) in his Senate race, and the momentum was not leaning his way. By morning, however, he’s regained a narrow lead in the polls: With 87 percent More…
With allegations of voter fraud swirling in several swing states and both parties dispatching lawyers into the field at record rates, there’s been a lot of buzz about the chances of a repeat of the kind of contested election the country witnessed with Sen. Al Franken (D) and former Sen. More…
In the RNC’s latest fundraising appeal, a website called nomorefrankens.com, the group makes a number of claims about the contested 2008 Minnesota Senate race between Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.). Now, someone who was there for nearly every minute of it — Jay Weiner, More…
On election night, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman conceded defeat to Democratic candidate Bill Owens after dramatically under-performing in key counties and deciding that he couldn’t overcome the gap. Today, the campaign is “looking very closely” at a recanvass of the district that has revealed, as recanvasses often do, More…
Even though things don’t look so good for former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) bid to keep Al Franken from being seated as Minnesota’s junior senator, Coleman’s still out there trying to raise money to pay his legal bills to keep Franken in the courts and out of Washington. In his More…
[UPDATE: Politico published a story this morning reporting that former Sen. Norm Coleman had raised $25 million for his election recount, and I published this quick post. Later in the day, Politico changed its story and reported that the $25 million figure included Coleman's general election fundraising. My original post More…
Rasmussen Reports (more about them here) polls Minnesota voters and finds them reasonably confident that DFLer Al Franken will be their next senator and just about as warm to the idea of a new election. Support for an extra-constitutional re-vote is 46-44, with Republicans heavily More…
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