uphill battle

Democrat Al Franken’s campaign attorney Marc Elias, responding to former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman’s filing of an election contest today, said the Republican’s legal move “could charitably be called an uphill battle to try to overturn the will of the people.”

Elias dismissed the Coleman suit, which alleges mistakes in the recently concluded statewiderecount, as being without merit — “essentially the same thin gruel, warmed over leftovers we’ve all been served over the last few weeks.”