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Gov. Tim Pawlenty politely rebuffed Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine’s plea to intervene in the U.S. Senate contest by pressuring Norm Coleman to concede. In a letter to the Virginia governor, Pawlenty argued that it’s too early to declare a winner in the contest.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine sent a letter to Gov. Tim Pawlenty yesterday urging him to call on Norm Coleman to concede the U.S. Senate contest. “I urge you to use your influence to bring this process to an end by asking Norm Coleman to allow his neighbors and yours their full representation in [...]

The Democratic National Committee has a new Web ad urging Norm Coleman to concede as his fellow Republican Jim Tedisco did Friday in New York’s special congressional election. It’s the latest example of the Web-based razzing Dems are giving the former U.S. Senator since he appealed his re-election loss to the Minnesota Supreme Court last [...]

Yesterday’s ruling by a three-judge panel declaring Al Franken the victor by 312 votes in the U.S. Senate contest leaves Norm Coleman on precarious legal ground. The former senator has vowed to appeal the decision to the Minnesota Supreme Court, and hinted at a federal court contest, but it’s clear that his chances of prevailing [...]

Mitch Stewart, who ran the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s coordinated campaign during the 2006 election cycle, has been named the director of Organizing for America. The fledgling organization, frequently dubbed “Obama 2.0,” is charged with continuing the grassroots organizing that was a hallmark of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Organizing for America — which can tap into 13 [...]

The Democratic National Committee is coming to the Republican National Convention — or at least, across the street. Hoping to keep a post-DNC bump, the party is setting up a media office across from the Xcel Energy Center to serve as a rapid-response center for countering whatever goes on inside. The “More of the Same” center — to be accessible via www.justmoreofthesame.com — will host media spokespeople, two dozen fact-checkers (who’ll fisk every GOP speech) and a satellite truck to transit interviews anywhere in the world.

Just two days after the news of Scott McClellan’s book broke, the Democratic National Committee has already posted a web ad tying McClellan’s disclosures about the selling of the war to John McCain’s pledge to continue the fight. It concludes with still another montage of McCain and George W. Bush uttering the same words — [...]

The Republican National Committee is leaning on the TV networks to refuse to air the anti-John McCain spot made by its counterparts at the DNC and released over the weekend. (We posted the :30 ad here.) The RNC is thereby trying to take out of play once and for all McCain’s repeated claims that he [...]

The Democratic National Committee released a new anti-McCain spot over the weekend, culled from the January forum where he uttered the best-known — but hardly the only — version of his “100 years in Iraq” fantasy. The Washington Post’s Channel ‘08 blog reports that it will run mainly on the cable news channels. (Below the [...]

Hope Yen of the Associated Press writes that the Democratic National Committee is filing a lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission  today. According to Yen, the litigation “questions the agency’s ability to enforce the law and review McCain’s decision to opt out of the system. The Republican presidential candidate, who had been entitled to $5.8 [...]