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ABC News vs. ABC News

January 06, 2009 9:02 am ET by Eric Boehlert

ABC's The Note, busy spinning GOP talking points, collides with ABC News regarding Al Franken's victory in Minnesota, which Norm Coleman is now going to try to overturn in the courts. 

The Note today [emphasis added]:  

Al Franken prepared to show up to claim a seat he hadn’t really won yet.

From ABC News yesterday

Two months after Minnesota voters went to the polls, Democrat Al Franken has been declared the winner of the U.S. Senate race, but his opponent, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, is ready to challenge the results in court.

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    • Author by eyeteeth.org669 (January 06, 2009 10:04 am ET)
         

      Of course, Norm Coleman declared himself the winner of this race long before Franken did -- on Nov. 21. 

      http://minnesotaindependent.com/18256/norm-coleman-im-a-winner-and-most-challenges-will-be-dismissed

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    • Author by Ossian (January 07, 2009 4:06 pm ET)
         
      So it turns out that it wasn't the 80s ... but the "10s" that are gonna be the Al Franken Decade.
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