Al Franken needs you
With all the focus on the transition the grass/netroots need to keep in mind that 60 is within reach.Here's what someone I know asked me to post as urgent:
View ArticleMy look at the Recount Part 2
Part one wasn't called "My Look at the Recount" though I wanted to name it that I felt the more important revelation of my last diary was the fact that I had found proof that Franken's people are...
View ArticleLiveblogging Watching Paint Dry. *UPDATED* x5
I just did some painting. Boy, this is exciting watching the paint dry on the wall.
View ArticlePics Of MINN Challenged Ballots...UPDATED The Incredible Shrinking Lead Of...
Here's a representation of "questioned" ballots in the race for Senator from Minnesota published by Minnesota Public Radio. Most of the pictured ballots below seem pretty easy to figure out, and some...
View ArticleNate Silver: Al Franken could win recount by 27 votes.
The latest article by Nate Silver on fivethirtyeight.com states that Al Franken could very well win the recount, according to his projection based on regression analysis.UPDATE: I should also point out...
View ArticleRecounts: a different take on the low-interest voter
Most balloting seems pretty straight-forward. The voter is asked to blacken a circle or draw a line through a box with a special felt tip pen. Maybe it's a butterfly ballot, and the voter is to use a...
View ArticleMN-Sen: Is Norm Coleman Internally Conceding?
The following conversation occurred last Tuesday, December 23rd, after the State Canvassing Board adjourned, but before the Minnesota Supreme Court convened that afternoon. This pseudo-press conference...
View ArticleWill Coleman Concede to the Al Franken Decade?
I wonder if he'll follow his own advice with this thing just about wrapped up. GO AL!
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: Lizard People
My work as an historioranter occasionally leads me to visit some of the loonier extremes of the Internet – the chat rooms with the padded walls and such – but one ballot cast in Minnesota during the...
View ArticleI Guess It Bears Repeating for the Wall Steet Journal: Minnesota is NOT Florida
Don't you think Minnesota is lucky to have a watchdog like the Wall Street Journal keeping tabs on our elections? So lucky.Well, they are at it again. Here is the latest installment....The Minnesota...
View Article"All hell just broke loose in the Minnesota courtroom . . ."
Oh dear dear dear. It appears that Team Coleman's lawyers have been naughty, and that their case may be in very deep doody!
View ArticleMN-SEN: The Race That Launched a Thousand Sh!ts
I walked to class last Wednesday with a Minnesotan who is, as of January 5th, under-represented in the United States Senate. She and the millions of other Minnesotans who we expect to abide by the...
View ArticleSenator Cornyn
Just faxed:Senator Cornyn:I am writing this in response to your recent tirade against seating Al Franken should he prevail in winning the MN state recount challenge in the MN courts. You alluded to...
View ArticleMN-Sen: Norm Coleman's Sidekicks as Hypocritcal as He Is
{Originally posted at my blog Senate Guru.}Sometimes birds of a feather really do flock together.Remember what Republican Norm Coleman said immediately following Election Day 2008, when the incomplete,...
View ArticleMN-Sen: Two New Polls Say Minnesotans Want Coleman to Concede Already
{Originally posted at my blog Senate Guru.}Two new polls makes it clear that Minnesotans want Republican Norm Coleman to give them back their second Senate seat that he is holding hostage with his...
View ArticleNRSC Removes Fundraising Page for Coleman
Breaking news - the National Republican Senatorial Committee has given up on Norm Coleman! For the past few months, the NRSC has been pushing their visitors to a donate page supporting Coleman's...
View ArticleElectoral College? Yes. Remember the Minnesota Recount.
The Electoral College without the two extra votes per state would probably work well and equitably.The flaw of the idea that the popular vote determining the election is the horror of a nationwide...
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