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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 overturn a trial court’s ruling that Al Franken won the U.S. Senate election by a [...]

Your 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 Norm Coleman still trailing Al Franken. The timing of the PiPress’ abrupt change of heart is highly suspect, coming [...]

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 at the Senate election trial in St. Paul with Franken’s “weeklong vacation in balmy Key West.” The election contest is Coleman’s doing — it [...]

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 followed up its weekend video with an email to supporters this morning essentially calling for an astroturf campaign. [...]

“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 an explainer on the upcoming election contest. But, from those first words out of his mouth, politics abound: He refers to [...]

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 unadorned, even bland two-paragraph statement about the honor he felt at attending the inauguration and [...]

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 state Canvassing Board examined during a recount that left Al Franken with a 225-vote lead.