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If the Senator is frustrated, imagine how her constituents must feel. For four months, they have watched high-powered Washington attorneys question the legitimacy of the state's esteemed election process, using dizzying legal arguments and statistical gymnastics. Coleman has even suggested that an entirely new election might have to...
Moreover, both candidates have done about-faces in strategy and rhetoric. When Franken was behind in the recount, his counsel argued that they wanted every legally cast ballot counted. But with Franken in the lead, they have taken a decidedly less sweeping position. When Coleman had the slim lead immediately...
And all signs are that it's got even further to go. On Friday, Minnesota's highest court refused Franken's request that Governor Tim Pawlenty and secretary of state Mark Ritchie be forced to award him the coveted election certificate, which, according to Senate rules, is necessary to seat...
After Minnesota's canvassing board certified Franken the winner of the state's protracted race by 225 votes in early January, Coleman filed an election contest on grounds that flaws in the state's election system were so widespread that they cost him the Senate seat. In the weeks that...
Still, the double distraction of a looming re-election battle and the ongoing health-care talks has some worried that Dodd might be neglecting the Senate Banking Committee at a crucial time, or at least be stretched too thin. "Health care is yet another distraction on the list of things...