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Category: Norm Coleman
In any event, more people seem to like Al Franken than who voted for him ... if we compare the 42% of the vote he got with the 49% approval rating he now has. (details) This is partly a function of increased favorablity following the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:22 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: recount
The Citizens Jury on Election Recounts is a privately funded entity that has assembled 24 jurors and given them stipends and various resources to evaluate the recount process and make recommendations. The "jurors" are randomly selected regular people....
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:01 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: recount
Court rules in Franken's favor. Pawlenty may delay seating Franken. Coleman not seen as likely to give up.
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:30 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: recount
After nearly eight months, Al Franken has won the election to the United States Senate. There are indications that Pawlenty will sign the election certificate. I'll update shortly as soon as I have more information. UPDATE HERE UPDATE UPDATE: COLEMAN CONCEDES...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:07 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Republicans
Time Pawlenty has become famous for his ability to be extraordinarily vague. Now we are seeing this in relation to the expected Minnesota State Supreme Court decision on the Franken-Coleman Senate election contest. For the most part, Pawlenty has signaled that he will only sign...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:30 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Al Franken
The Minnesota Supreme Court spokesperson Lissa "No-that-is-not-a-typo" Finne has told Greg Sargent's Blog that the other blogs suggesting that the court would issue a decision today are incorrect. Finne indicates that sometimes the court tells the involved parties on Monday about a decision on Thursday,...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:36 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Legal experts are largely undivided in the opinion that Norm Coleman's Minnesota Supreme Court bid to overturn a lower judicial panel's decisions regarding the vote count in the Minnesota Senate race is senseless and has no chance whatsoever of winning. This opinion was widely held...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I always liked Jesse. I didn't agree with about half of his policies, but I did not have the automated lefty knee jerk reaction against him that almost everyone I know had. Hey, he did after all, beat Norm Coleman in that governor's race!...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:10 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Only 28 percent of Minnesotans think Coleman's current appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court is appropriate. Sixty four percent think he should give up now. Seventy three percent feel that he should not go beyond the State Supreme Court if he loses there. The will...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:05 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Al Franken
Al Franken is about to be seated as the Junior Senator from Minnesota after a long and costly battle between loser Norm Coleman and Senator Franken. Al won the election by just a few hundred votes, and three of those votes are mine....
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:56 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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