senate race

The Philadelphia Inquirer has the first negative TV ad in the 2010 Pennsylvania Senate race, with Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) needling Pat Toomey — who hasn’t entered the race yet — over the economy.

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 in favor. But the headline seems to be the dramatic [...]

Our siblings at The Minnesota Independent have the breakdown of the first statewide Minnesota poll taken since the recount ended and former GOP Sen. Norm Coleman’s kicking and screaming began in earnest. The results are inconclusive, colored by heavy partisanship on the part of both candidates’ supporters.
The big picture: the percentage of Minnesotans who favor [...]

Still doubting that the Wall Street Journal’s editorial attacking Minnesota election officials for their recount conduct was bad for former Sen. Norm Coleman? At our sister site, The Minnesota Independent, Chris Steller posts the text of a letter one election judge, Edward Clearly, sent to the Journal.
As to the Board as a whole, all of [...]

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 Board’s review of challenged ballots draws to [...]

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 Minneapolis, and Franken stood to lose a net [...]

TPM Election Central caught an interview with Gov. Sarah Palin as she exited her polling station in Wasilla, Alaska.
Who did she vote for in today’s U.S. Senate race?