Author: Carl EemanPublisher: Word Alchemy Inc
ISBN: 0982433719
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Recounting Minnesota
Author: Carl EemanPublisher: Word Alchemy Inc
ISBN: 0982433719
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This Is Not Florida
Author: Jay WeinerPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 145291544X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
On July 7, 2009, Al Franken was sworn in as Minnesota's junior U.S. senator-eight months after Election Night. In the chill of November 2008, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman led by a slim 215 votes, a margin that triggered an automatic statewide recount of more than 2.9 million ballots. Minnesota's ensuing recount, and the contentious legal and public relations battle that would play out between the Franken and Coleman lawyers and staff, simultaneously fascinated and frustrated Minnesotans and the nation-all while a filibuster-proof Senate hung in the balance. This Is Not Florida is the behind-the-scenes saga of the largest, longest, and most expensive election recount in American history. Reporter Jay Weiner covered the entire recount process-for which he was honored with Minnesota's most prestigious journalism award-following every bizarre twist and turn and its many colorful personalities. Based on daily reporting as well as interviews with more than forty campaign staffers and other participants in the recount, This Is Not Florida dives into the motivations of key players in the drama, including the exploits of Franken's lead attorney Marc Elias, some of the mistakes made by Coleman advisers, and how the Franken team's devotion to data collection helped Franken win the recount by a mere 312 votes. In a fascinating, blow-by-blow account of the historic recount that captivated people nationwide, Jay Weiner gets inside campaign war rooms and judges' chambers and takes the reader from the uncertainties of Election Night 2008, through the controversial State Canvassing Board and a grueling eight-week trial, to an appeal to Minnesota's Supreme Court, and finally to Al Franken's long-awaited and emotional swearing-in. This Is Not Florida presents an important and unforgettable moment in political history that proved that it's never really over until it's actually over
The Recount Recounted
Author: Robert Ames ForsythePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
This is Not Florida
Author: Jay WeinerPublisher: University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816670383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The behind-the-scenes story of the historic Franken-Coleman Minnesota Senate recount.
Turnout
Author: Joan Anderson GrowePublisher:
ISBN: 9781681341637
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The architect and chief promoter of Minnesota's high voter turnout tells her story, showing how hard work and cooperation made the state a leader in clean, open elections.
Minnesota in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection
Author: Franklin Fisk HolbrookPublisher: Saint Paul : Minnesota War Records Commission
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Contested Elections and Recounts
Author: Marie GarberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contested elections
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A History of Minnesota
Author: William Watts FolwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
An analysis of laws and procedures governing contested elections and recounts
Author: Indiana University. Institute for Research in Public SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Minnesota Book of Days
Author: Tony Greiner; Howard MohrPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873517415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State