day one

As Al Franken and Norm Coleman ready themselves for a fourth month in electoral limbo, are they also readying to serve in the U.S. Senate? Al Franken, who’s never been a U.S. senator, says he’s “ready to go on Day 1.” Six-year Senate veteran Norm Coleman, out of office one month, sounds less sure: “I’m trying to be ready.”

Al Franken closed his vote count gap with incumbent Norm Coleman to 172 on Wednesday, the first day of Minnesota’s statewide U.S. Senate election recount. Both candidates lost votes as officials recounted by hand slightly more than 15 percent of 2.9 million ballots cast — but Coleman lost 70 and Franken only 27. According to [...]