Coleman's Lead Down to 120 as Challenges Skyrocket (1)
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According to figures compiled by the Star Tribune, Norm Coleman now holds a lead of 120 votes over Al Franken. Coleman's lead before the recount began had been 215 votes.A majority of the state's ballots -- some 64 percent -- have now been re-counted. The counties re-counted to date have been slightly redder than the state as a whole, favoring Coleman by an aggregate of about 1.6 points in the initial count. The difference has ...
Ballot Challenges On Rise in Minnesota (3)
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On the first day of Minnesota's recount process, the Coleman campaign challenged roughly 2.3 ballots for every 10,000 cast, and the Franken campaign challenged 2.5, for a total of 4.8 challenges per 10,000 ballots according to figures compiled by Minnesota Secretary of State.Yesterday, the second day of the process, that challenge rate rose to 3.1 per 10,000 ballots for Coleman, and 3.4 per 10,000 ballots for Franken, for a challenge rate of 6.5 ballots per ...
Franken(steining) Voters in Minnesota (1)
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With the balance in the Senate on the line, I’ve been trying very hard to watch what is coming out of our neighbor state of Minnesota. And I’ve been somewhat appalled. With only a few hundred votes seperating the two competitors out of several million votes, I expected there to be some court battles and such for rejected votes. But somebody needs to draw the line. The Franken campaign went to court recently demanding that ...
Coleman Leads Franken By 136 Votes After Thursday Count (2)
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Perhaps Al Franken's campaign is listening to Nate, never a bad move. Franken has now challenged more ballots than Norm Coleman, 414 to 409.Coleman's lead over Franken is now 136 votes after two days and 46% of the ballots recounted. 30% of votes have been recounted in heavily Democratic Ramsey County, 36% in Democratic St. Louis County, and 42% in Democratic Hennepin County.Six relatively small counties are set to begin counting tomorrow. More are set ...
MN-Sen: Getting closer still (1)
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They're counting away. The latest: By the end of the day Wednesday, the mandatory statewide recount -- triggered when the Election Day results gave Coleman a lead of less than 0.5 percent -- slashed Franken's deficit from 215 votes to 174, with about 18 percent of the ballots having been reviewed. The figures represent a compilation of recount data reported to the secretary of state and gathered by the Star Tribune [...] In Duluth today, ...
Minnesota: Is Franken Being Too Nice? (3)
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According to the latest statistics compiled by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Norm Coleman's campaign has thus far challenged 240 ballots in Minnesota's recount process, whereas the Franken campaign has challenged 172 ballots, a 68-ballot gap. If the rate of challenges holds steady as the rest of the state's ballots are re-counted, that would mean the Coleman campaign would send about 1,050 ballots to the state's canvassing board as compared with roughly 750 from Franken.'Challenged' ballots ...
You Judge The Ballots (1)
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NPR has samples of some of the contested ballots in the Coleman/Franken Minnesota Senate election, and lets you vote on how you think they should be counted. Finally, a chance to prove you're smarter than a Floridian! Take a whack at it -- and remember, Minnesota operates under a loose "intent of the voter" standard.My decisions:1) Franken2) Accept it (McCain)3) Franken (this was, in my view, the closest call)4) Franken5) Franken ("Lizard People" wasn't bubbled ...
Examine Disputed Minnesota Ballots For Laffs! (3)
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Oh here is a fun game! Check out these actual disputed voter ballots from Minnesota, and look at what laughable excuses the Coleman and Franken campaigns have for arguing “voter intent” in one direction or the other. Minnesota Public Radio, you have rendered a valuable time-wasting service unto the nation. [MPR via First Read]
Spice Up Your Gmail with Themes from Google (5)
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We use Gmail everyday, do you get bored with the look of Gmail? Would you like to have a new fresh look for your Gmail? Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven’t been an integral part of Gmail. Google wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another ...
[UPDATED] In Minnesota Recount, Both Candidates are Losers Thus Far (2)
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And I mean literally.The Minnesota recount has started, with the results being updated in semi-real time on the Star Tribune's webpage. Thus far, with about 5 percent of the ballots recounted, Coleman has lost 55 votes and Franken has lost 61.The reason the vote totals are going down when you might intuitively expect them to go up is that either candidate has a right to challenge any ballot for any reason, even if it had ...
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CJ said:
I wonder if they'll resolve this in time for next year's first Senate session?
On First Day of Recount, Franken Gains Net of 43 Votes on Coleman (7)
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UPDATED, 9:15 PM CentralAccording to data just released by the Minnesota Secretary of State, Al Franken has gained a net of 43 votes on the first day of that state's recount process. Norm Coleman had a lead of 215 voters over Franken in Minnesota's certified, pre-recount tally; that margin is now 172 votes.Minnesota reports that it has thus far re-counted 15.49 percent of its ballots. If the first day's results are indicative of the pace ...
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Promethean said:
Ok.. this is a weird and useless article. Here's some info that it's useless to extrapolate from, so let us extrapolate from it for you.
Blog Awards and Memes - Thank you!!!!!!! (1)
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I have got to catch up on this!I received more awards! Ah, nothing cooler and more encouraging than that! :-)First of all -The "I Love Your Blog" Award!This was sent to me by Kelly from Our Family Ramblings!Part of accepting the award is:*displaying the award*linking back to the person who gave it to you*paying it forward & nominating 7 blogs*adding links to those seven blogs*leaving comments on their blog telling them you gave them an ...
Shipping Containers Perfect for Emergency Waste Water Treatment (1)
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Photo via Gizmag Clean water in disaster areas and developing nations is a major element in being able to deal with improvements. An ingenious use of shipping containers and waste water treatment methods is helping to make clean water and waste treatment easier than ever. The Deployable Aqueous Aerobic Bioreactor, or DAAB, was developed by the Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies at Sam Houston State University, and PCDworks. And it seems to b...
10倍高速な「USB 3.0」の最終仕様が公開（ニュース） (1)
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USBの標準化団体USB Implementers Forum（USB-IF）は米国時間2008年11月17日，パソコン向け次世代インタフェース規格「USB 3.0」（別名「SuperSpeed USB」）の内容を確定させ，仕様書を公開した。
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Η αστυνομία απαγορεύει την κυκλοφορία στο κέντρο της πόλης μου και στα πανεπιστήμια πέφτει ξύλο. Τρομοκρατία, δικτακτορία και φόβος ελεύθερης διακίνησης στο σήμερα, λόγω εορτασμού του… Πολυτεχνείου. Τι γιορτάζουμε ακριβώς είπαμε; Εμένα για επαναλαμβανόμενη αναπαράσταση του εγκλήματος σε μικροκλίμακα μου μοιάζει.
阿司匹林可降糖尿病患者心脑血管事件死亡率 (1)
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最新公布的一项临床研究结果显示：在一级预防中使用小剂量阿司匹林可显著降低二型糖尿病患者心脑血管事件死亡率，而并不增加出血性风险。 这是本月举行的美国心脏病学年会上报告的新结论。被命名为“小剂量阿司匹林一级预防二型糖尿病患者动脉粥样硬化事件研究”，是全....Shared by Nd (27)Contribute comment
