Is Coleman's Goal a Do-Over?

FiveThirtyEight by Nate Silver | Jan. 17, 2009 (News Analysis)

If you read the rest of Marc's piece, it's clear that it has been informed by discussions with the Coleman campaign; he's basically reporting the Coleman campaign's spin on the process. Which is fine -- Ambinder is one of the few reporters out there who actually does a lot of reporting, and reporting someone else's spin, as Ambinder does, is very different from spinning yourself. (I do think that Ambinder takes a number of the Coleman campaign's arguments ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Jan. 17, 2009

Silver detects a spin emanating from the Republican party to try to override the recount process. The comments suggest that the bad-loser stigma would likely give Franken a benefit if there were enough goofy politics to take this to a revote.

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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Jan. 17, 2009

More supposition than journalism. Silver may be trying to raise a red flag about Coleman’s new tactics. God knows neocons have done nuttier things to obfuscate in order to sneak in the back way. Of course there’s lots more to this than merely a disgruntled neocon–like the monies necessary for a re-election in an serious economic turndown of neocon making.

Ever notice that even while neocons are busy trashing the constitution, they’re also vociferous in quoting from it–however falsely and distorted are their quotes–in order to get us to allow them their myopic ways?

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by Joel Kulenkamp - Jan. 17, 2009

This article presents some very intriguing options, such as revoting. I also like the prose of the closing graph about Coleman's campaign trying to create a "fog of doubt ".

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