December 17th, 2009 // comments (0)

LIEBERMAN VS. FRANKEN

Lieberman vs. Franken with a side of McCain…

January 26th, 2009 // comments (0)

Colman/Franken Battle Heats Up

Now that the election results are being debated in the courtroom (as opposed to the court of public opinion) there is some heated rhetoric flying around…

…including ‘doctoring evidence‘.

January 6th, 2009 // comments (0)

Coleman Challenges MN Recount

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Republican Norm Coleman is suing to challenge Democrat Al Franken’s apparent recount victory in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race. At a news conference Tuesday, Coleman says he won’t accept a board’s determination that Franken won 225 more votes in the November election.

The lawsuit will keep the seat vacant for weeks or months. State law prevents officials from issuing an election certificate until legal matters are resolved.

This is a futile move on…

January 5th, 2009 // comments (0)

Franken Wins Senate Seat

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Democrat Al Franken will be declared the winner of the tight U.S. Senate contest in Minnesota, emerging from a ballot recount with a slim margin over Republican Norm Coleman, state officials said on Sunday.http://wjnoblog.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

But Coleman, the incumbent, has asked Minnesota’s supreme court to require that a few hundred additional absentee ballots be included in the recount — and he could then ask the court to investigate the contest all over again.

“At the moment, Franken

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December 19th, 2008 // comments (0)

Franken Takes Lead In Recount

The intense scrutiny of “voter intent” resumed this morning by a five-member board charged with directing Minnesota’s recount in the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democratic rival Al Franken, and the first rush of ballot rulings has unofficially put the challenger in the lead.

They were bound to keep recounting and recounting until the desired result was achieved. Republicans, it looks to me like you have lost yourself yet another seat in the Senate.…

December 18th, 2008 // comments (0)

Franken Closing In On Coleman

Norm Coleman’s Lead Has Evaporated To 88 Votes:

Meanwhile, a Coleman spokesman predicted that Democrat Al Franken would take the lead Thursday for the first time in the recount as many of Coleman’s challenges being dropping would go into Franken’s column. The spokesman, Mark Drake, predicted it would be a “temporary flip” that Coleman would overcome later as other withdrawn challenges are awarded to the candidates.

Believe it or not, the highly over-rated Nate Silver is guessing that Norm…

December 17th, 2008 // comments (0)

Live: The Coleman/Franken Recount

Board members seem to have quickly hit their groove and are occasionally leavening their calls on the ballots with mild wisecracks. Confronted with a ballot that one member called “very odd,” District Judge Kathleen Gearin said the ballot looked “like a scribbled Mickey Mouse sideways,” marking the return of Mickey to the discussion for the second straight day. The ballot, indeed, was scribbled in an image that could be seen as a cartoon mouse. It was tossed into the

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December 11th, 2008 // comments (0)

Franken In Hail-Mary Web Vid

The six-minute long clip includes testimony from several Minnesotans who say that their votes were unfairly discounted because of clerical or administrative errors. The voters in the video all cast absentee ballots — either because illness prevented them from going to the polls (one testimonial was from a quadriplegic), they were out of the state, or were busy volunteering on Election Day.

The uncomfortable truth for Al: He’s still nearly 200 votes behind Norm Coleman.

December 5th, 2008 // comments (0)

Minnesota Recount Is Over, Kinda

Except for 133 missing ballots from Minneapolis, the recounting of ballots from the U.S. Senate race is over.

At 11:29 a.m., Wright County maintenance worker Allen Buskey pushed a cart with 10 boxes of ballots into Room 217 at the county government center in Buffalo and locked up the last of the 2.9 million ballots recounted since Nov. 19.

“We’re done,” said state elections director Gary Poser, after putting stickers on the 21st challenged ballot from the

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December 3rd, 2008 // comments (0)

Baghdad Bob: Franken Claims Lead

Franken’s lawyer, Marc Elias, has been pressing for the media to focus on the campaign’s internal vote totals of the recount, which as of Wednesday showed Franken opening a lead of 22 votes.

To drive home its point, the campaign will withdraw hundreds of challenges that it determines have no merit in the state’s ongoing recount.

“We will be sending a letter to the Secretary of State today withdrawing 633 challenges that we believe have no chance of being

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December 2nd, 2008 // comments (0)

The Epic Fall Of Al Franken

Franken’s campaign is beginning to sound like Baghdad Bob as Coalition forces marched into Baghdad. We all know what’s coming, but that won’t stop the rabid denials and victorious claims.

The attorney voiced optimism about Franken’s chances.

“I have no doubt in my mind that Al Franken got more votes in this election than Norm Coleman,” he said. “I don’t know what that margin’s going to be. But the direction is all in one place, and we believe that’s

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November 26th, 2008 // comments (0)

Franken Suffers Recount Setback

Bad news for Franken fans, that Senate trip may have been a waste of time.

November 20th, 2008 // comments (0)

More Franken Coleman Ballots

What do you think? Who were these people trying to vote for?

November 20th, 2008 // comments (0)

Al Franken Is Contesting This?

The bubble beside Norm Coleman’s name appeared to have both an X and a squiggle in it, but the Al Franken campaign wants the state Canvassing Board to rule on whether it should count. That’s the only challenge in the special envelope in Plymouth so far, according to Sandy Engdahl, the city clerk and the official running the city recount.

Seriously? Is there anyone who thinks that Coleman bubble isn’t circled?

November 5th, 2008 // comments (0)

Franken/Coleman Recount Coming

Sen. Norm Coleman is leading Democratic challenger Al Franken in one of the most bitter U.S. Senate races in Minnesota history.

With 100 percent of the 4,130 precincts reporting, Coleman had an unofficial margin of 601 votes out of nearly 2.9 million cast. Recounts are required in races with a winning margin of less than one half of 1 percent.

The Associated Press uncalled the Senate race at about 9 a.m., saying they had prematurely declared Coleman the winner.

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