UPDATE: A week after calling him a "clown," Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) embraced new Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on the Senate floor. Inhofe said he and...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
The foot-dragging on the part of officials in Minnesota when it comes to certifying the state's Senate election winner is having serious ramifications...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
UPDATE: Coleman's Senate office has been ordered closed, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: With the recount battle still underway, the doors to ...
Brian Normoyle | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics
Coleman's earlier admonishments about healing quickly and sparing taxpayer dollars have given way to a stubborn refusal to be a man of his word.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics
With concern rising in Minnesota that the state could be without a Senator for the crucial early months of the next Congress, Sen. Amy Klobuchar weigh...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics
The possible, perhaps, impending victory of Al Franken to the Senate has sent GOP officials into a paranoid tizzy. In an "urgent message" to supporte...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
Democratic challenger Al Franken finds himself on the cusp of winning a seat in the United States Senate after Minnesota's canvassing board awarded hi...
HuffPost, Minnesota Independent, MinnPost.com | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics
The Franken campaign has again lowered the number of ballot challenges they will submit on Tuesday. As reported by MinnPost.com, the campaign sent ou...
Mark Crispin Miller | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
'm trying very hard to keep from gloating inwardly about Al Franken's plight, since, from Election Day, 2004, he has always pointedly denied the evidence of fraud by the Republicans.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Staffers for Al Franken, who once worried that the Minnesota Democrat would fall short against Republican Sen. Norm Coleman even after a recount, now ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
The Minnesota Senate race remains undecided, separated by a margin of less than 500 votes. But despite the narrowness of the contest -- and the fact t...
AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Moving from celebrity to senator isn't exactly an untraveled path. But that doesn't mean comedian Al Franken, who is vying for a Se...
AP | PATRICK CONDON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
MINNEAPOLIS — Al Franken's main competition for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate dropped out Monday, giving the comedian-turned-candida...
The Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
From Minnesota's Duluth Journal: Al Franken for Senate announced today that two television ads will begin running on all four major broadcast network...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics