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The destination that Republicans see for Senate-seat saga? ‘The bitter end’

By Chris Steller | 03.09.09 | 12:24 pm

cornyn-in-coleman-adWhere do national Republican leaders, who are helping bankroll Norm Coleman’s election contest fight, see Minnesota’s Senate saga going? “We’re in completely,” National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) tells The Politico. “We’ll support Norm

Coleman side says it: ‘Set aside the election’

By Chris Steller | 03.02.09 | 8:05 pm

“Set aside the election.”
Those four words appear as the “most appropriate remedy,” in a letter that Norm Coleman’s lawyer, James Langdon, sent to the judges Monday in the former Minnesota senator’s election contest trial. The letter cites eight cases from other states in…

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…