MN US Senate
Minnesota: Where Is Your Outrage Towards Harry Reid?
As the Minnesota U.S. Senate election trial ends its fourth week on Friday, partisan criticisms against Norm Coleman continue to mount from the left. Coleman has been accused of belaboring an election process which has left the Gopher State now…
Read MoreWhy the Minnesota Senate Recount and Court Challenge Is Helping the Federal Budget Deficit
While Minnesota taxpayers are on the hook for approximately $200,000 to pay for its 62-day U.S. Senate race recount, that long process, and Norm Coleman’s subsequent court challenge, is saving taxpayers’ money nationwide as Minnesota’s Class II Senate seat remains…
Read MoreColeman Says ‘God Wants Me to Serve’
While Al Franken remains fairly elusive, Norm Coleman is keeping a high profile these days as his court challenge of the Minnesota U.S. Senate recount plods along. Coleman is adept, somewhat too adept, his critics might say, at skillfully tailoring…
Read MoreThe Trial Begins: What Is Norm Coleman’s End Game?
The fact that the Minnesota Senate recount has moved to the lawsuit phase is a surprise to no one – with an election decided by a few hundred votes, there is no doubt either candidate who ended up on the…
Read More12 Days And Counting: Minnesota Already At 4th Longest Stint Without Two Senators in State History
Since January 3rd, when Norm Coleman’s first term as U.S. Senator came to an end, Amy Klobuchar has officially been doing double-duty as the state’s lone Senator on Capitol Hill. Klobuchar has stated her office started receiving a noticeable increase…
Read MoreColeman Popularity Virtually Unchanged Since Election Day, Despite Recent Poll Headline
Much has been made of the extremely low favorability ratings Norm Coleman (and Al Franken) are enduring in the wake of numbers released in last week’s SurveyUSA poll of Minnesotans conducted after the conclusion of the 2008 U.S. Senate recount…
Read MoreU.S. Senate Race Ends Up 12 Votes Shy of ’62 Gubernatorial Margin of Victory Record
With the final results (court challenge pending) certified by the State Canvassing Board on Monday finding Al Franken with a 225-vote victory over Norm Coleman, the 2008 U.S. Senate race nearly eclipsed the 1962 gubernatorial election as the closest high-profile…
Read MoreWill Al Franken Be the Favorite in 2014?
Presuming Al Franken is eventually seated as the junior Senator from Minnesota sometime this year, the Republican Party will no doubt soon be gearing up to plan his political demise in 2014 – whether with Norm Coleman in a rematch…
Read MoreFranken’s (Apparent) Victory Is 4th Weakest U.S. Senate Performance in DFL History
Throughout his U.S. Senate campaign, Al Franken was dogged by criticisms, even peppered from within his own party, that he was a ‘weak candidate’ for the DFL. These criticisms took many forms, such as stern words regarding Franken’s writings…
Read MoreFranken Has Big Edge in County Distribution of Absentee Ballots
Al Franken’s 49-vote lead is expected by nearly all analysts to increase after the tabulation of wrongly excluded absentee ballots by the Canvassing Board this weekend. The final, hard data is now in to confirm these suspicions. Of the 953…
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