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BradBlog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-30-09 07:12 PM
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'Slow-Motion Comedy Show': Days 4 & 5 of the Coleman/Franken U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
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'Slow-Motion Comedy Show': Days 4 & 5 of the Coleman/Franken U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
Wherein everybody flip-flops, Coleman makes a successful argument, but may have blown it with a 'phony' website crash and an horrendous argument for Internet voting...

Where Coleman's case began on Monday as little more than a comedy of one error after another, as we explained in some detail earlier this week, over Days 4 (yesterday) and 5 (today), his legal team seems to have found a bit of footing, even if they've had to counter most of their own legal arguments that they'd made previously to keep ballots from being counted during the post-election hand-counting of ballots.

At the end of that process, Franken was found, by the state canvassing board, to have defeated Coleman by 225 votes, out of 2.9 million cast, even though Coleman was slightly ahead in the vote count during most of that time, and thus, argued adamantly against including as many previously rejected absentee ballots as he could.

But that was then, when he was winning, and this is now, when he seems to be losing...

FULL COVERAGE OF ALL THE LATEST:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6870

Read more: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6870
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-30-09 07:14 PM
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1. Coleman is such a prick.
That's all I got.
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BradBlog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 12:14 AM
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2. I feel ya... (n/t)
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 01:18 AM
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3. Help Al fight this jerk with
a donation to Al's recount fund. https://secure.alfranken.com/page/contribute
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