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Live video: Coleman v. Franken at the state Supreme Court

By Paul Schmelzer | 06.01.09 | 7:47 am

Nearly seven months after election day, Minnesota’s unresolved Senate race sees another milestone today — and a chance to move closer to filling the state’s second seat. The state Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Norm Coleman’s bid to…

Timing suspect as Pioneer Press says Senate election ‘tie’ calls for ‘do-over’

By Chris Steller | 02.15.09 | 1:31 pm

pipress-vs-pipressYour Honors, I object. Today’s Pioneer Press editorial, using mock-trial lingo, declares, “This election is a tie” and calls for “a do-over election as the only way to pick a true winner” in the Senate contest that has…

First Angelina, now Norm: Star Tribune cover celebrates Coleman’s PR campaign

By Chris Steller | 01.30.09 | 11:12 am

The Star Tribune splashes what it calls Norm Coleman’s “never-ending image duel against Democrat [Al] Franken” across most of its front page today — contrasting the former Republican senator’s daily presence…

Coleman launches astroturf campaign

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.27.09 | 11:28 am

The spin surrounding the contested U.S. Senate results, Paul Demko wrote yesterday, is irrelevant: “The only votes that matter now are those of the three district court judges on the panel.” Still, Norm Coleman’s campaign has

Video: Coleman says Franken’s ‘artificial lead’ will disappear

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.22.09 | 3:33 pm

“I’m Senator Norm Coleman.” That’s how former Sen. Norm Coleman starts out a new video put out by his campaign today. Conveying similar information to his new fundraising solicitation, the video comes across as…

The difference between Coleman and Franken, in inaugural and fundraising messages

By Chris Steller | 01.20.09 | 5:39 pm

In separate e-mails sent almost simultaneously this evening, Al Franken and former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman offered takes on President Obama’s inauguration as diametrically opposed in style as the Senate contenders are opposed in their rival campaigns. Franken’s is an…

Coleman wants judges to review 12,000 twice-rejected ballots

By Chris Steller | 01.19.09 | 5:07 pm

Norm Coleman’s lawyers said today they might ask a three-judge panel to open every absentee ballot that was rejected in Minnesota’s contested Senate election. That would be about 12,000 ballots, or nearly 10 times the 1,350 that the…