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While he still faces a court challenge from opponent Norm Coleman, Web users are celebrating Franken's triumph in the Minnesota Senate recount by passing around an obscure video of his appearance on the 1980s television dance show Solid Gold, for which the future politician impersonated Mick Jagger with a cover of "Under My Thumb...
...bacon-for-dessert trend isn't limited to high-end, experimental restaurants. In 2008 you could buy bacon-covered chocolate at the Minnesota State Fair or watch bacon get dipped in chocolate on the Food Network's Dinner: Impossible. "I bet other meats would work" in sugary fare, says chef Jerome Chang, whose itinerant Dessert Truck serves New Yorkers a $5 chocolate bread pudding with bacon crème anglaise. "Bacon is just more sellable because people mix it up with their pancakes and their syrup and they're used to that. Plus, people like bacon...
...that 150 ballots were counted twice and that the board incorrectly included 133 ballots that had gone missing at a Minneapolis precinct. "[Coleman's] legal theory is fine; he just has to have the facts to support it," says Guy-Uriel Charles, a law professor at the University of Minnesota who specializes in election law. "I think this contest is going to be an uphill battle for Coleman...
...lawyers and judges. "The politicians are going to decide it, the lawyers are going to decide it," says Dan Solem, 44, a trucker from Minneapolis who voted for Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley. "It's kind of a joke." Added Sarah MyTych, 21, a student at the University of Minnesota: "It just all seems like such a circus." (Read "Minnesota, This Is Your Senator...
...argue, it's the legitimacy of the election that matters, not how fast it's completed. Further, two major metropolitan newspapers, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the former of which endorsed Coleman, editorialized Tuesday that an election contest by Coleman is necessary because the Minnesota State Canvassing Board doesn't have the authority of review...