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Al Franken to ask senate for help

Al Franken’s (D) campaign may ask the Democratic-led Senate to intervene on his... more

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Franken campaign finds 6,400 UNCOUNTED absentee ballots -WTF?

With the recount in the razor-thin Minnesota U.S. Senate race continuing into its... more

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Obama to fill "Leadership Vacuum" to calm volatile market

President-elect Barack Obama sought to seize the reins of the economic crisis Monday... more

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Franken Campaign Calls For Investigation Of Missing Ballots

Al Franken's Senate campaign called on the Minnesota Secretary of State to launch... more

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Franken claims Coleman's lead is less than 100 votes

Al Franken’s campaign claimed Friday that Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.)... more

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Franken camp: Coleman's lead down to double digits

"It is fair to say that Norm Coleman's lead is now in the double... more

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Challenged Minnnesota Ballots: You be the judge

Here are some actual challenged ballots from recount in the the Minnesota Senate race.... more

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Recount

Track the Minnesota Senate seat recount here.

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Al Franken Election: Coleman's Lead Shrinks To 174 Votes

By day's end, with about 18 percent of the vote recounted, Coleman continued to... more

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Who's winning the recount?

With Alaska's santoral election drawing to a close there is only one outstanding... more

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Stevens ousted; Dems eye power of 60

The Democratic pursuit of 60 Senate seats received new life Tuesday night after Alaska... more

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Minnesota Eyed for Vote Fraud?

In typical Fox News grandeur, finger pointing to potential voter fraud in the Al... more

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Deep Franken Thoughts w/Jack Handey

Jack Handey, the SNL alum best known for his "Deep Thoughts," hooked me up... more

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Minnesota Senate Race: Typo Fix Gives Franken 100 More Votes

The vote gap between Senate candidates Norm Coleman and Al Franken fluctuated... more

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Al Franken recount after losing by 571 votes

Challenger democrat Al Franken has lost his senate race by 477 votes, according to the... more

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Minnesota Senate race heads into automatic recount

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A slugfest for nearly two years, Minnesota's U.S. Senate... more

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Al Franken Gets recount in Minnesota

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Georgia Senate challengers prepare for runoff

(CNN) -- The two major candidates in Georgia's hotly contested Senate race both... more

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Al Franken Is Leading in the Nastiest, Most Expensive Senate Race in the Country

In the early days of his campaign to oust incumbent Republican senator Norm Coleman, Al Franken answered charges of carpetbagging by joking that he was the only New York Jew in the race who actually grew up in Minnesota. He retired the line last summer, but the Franken campaign has lately revived its spirit by emphasizing the fact that the candidate didn't just grow up in Minnesota, but in middle-class Minnesota. Less than two weeks before Election Day, the debate in the Land of a Thousand Lakes is right where Franken wants it, at the kitchen table, focused on the issues he has been running on from the start: falling wages, rising tuition, health care, jobs. As it has for Democrats across the country, recent turmoil in the financial markets has heightened receptivity to Franken's broad progressive agenda. It is an opportunity that the Franken campaign and its army of 80,000 volunteers intend to seize in the final days of the bloodiest, costliest senate race this cycle.

"It's all about the economy right now in Minnesota, and Norm Coleman is irrevocably tied to Bush's economic policies," says Franken's spokesperson, Andy Barr. "We're the ones offering change and ideas. Al Franken is the only candidate in the country proposing a $5,000 tax credit for post-secondary education. Struggling families need that kind of help more than ever. As they say, we're fired up and ready to go."

The latest polls show Franken with a composite poll position lead of between 2 and 3 points, which he has held since the beginning of October -- his first sustained lead of the race. Whichever candidate proves the better stretch runner, the barrage from the other side will continue through until Election Day. Franken and Coleman together raised more than $7 million in the period ending Sept. 30, with Franken pulling in more than $4.4 million. The two campaigns will go out in a blaze of last-minute ads, an appropriate finale to the most expensive campaign in Minnesota history. Altogether, the candidates have raised $34 million between them ($18 million for Coleman; $16 million for Franken.)

But all that money isn't just sowing doubt about the other guy. A good chunk of Minnesotans turned off by the negative ads and the mudslinging now have doubts about both guys and have turned to Independent Party candidate Dean Barkley. A former lawyer and current bus driver, Barkley briefly occupied Paul Wellstone's Senate seat after the Democratic senator was killed in a plane crash in October 2002. Barkley is currently polling at 18 percent, but despite his firm opposition to the Iraq War and his general appeal with Democrats (he was once approached by state Dems about challenging Michele Bachmann's 6th District seat), polls indicate that Barkley is sucking more votes away from Coleman than from Franken. There are also indications that this is his intent. In the last debate between the three men, Barkley unleashed his most ferocious attacks on Coleman. At a recent American Legion Club luncheon with press, Barkley gleefully admitted that he was gaining ground at the expense of the Republican, making the oddly Marxist-sounding boast that he has "demystified Norm Coleman for the people of Minnesota."In the early days of his campaign to oust incumbent Republican senator Norm Coleman,... more

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Upset on horizon? Franken surging ahead in Minnesota senate race

A funny thing seems to be happening in Minnesota: Al Franken, who trailed in the polls... more

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