{"id":4146,"date":"2009-02-04T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T13:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2009-02-04T08:17:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T13:17:54","slug":"the-backstretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4146","title":{"rendered":"The Backstretch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are we on the final leg of Minnesota&#8217;s endless recount?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not.\u00a0 But the Ramsey County court hearing Senator Coleman&#8217;s petition on the improperly yesterday rejected ballots has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mncourts.gov\/Documents\/2\/Public\/Civil\/2209%20Coleman%20Franken\/Order_on_Contestees_Motion_in_Limine_to_Limit_Absentee-Ballot_Evidence_to_Ballots_Pleaded_in_the_Notice_of_Contest.pdf\">ruled <\/a>[PDF alert!], largely, in Coleman&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Johnson at Powerline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/022731.php\">writes:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The order entered by the three-judge panel presiding in the Coleman election contest proceeding is accessible here. A few observations:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scott follows up with a dozen points, from the perspective of a guy who unpacks legalism for a living.\u00a0 Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>So how about the big leftyblogs?<\/p>\n<p>MNPublius, whose franchise Aaron Landry has immeasurably cheapened as a tingly-legged wind-up petblogger for Franken this past year?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mnpublius.com\/\">Bupkes<\/a> as this is written.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Their bosses in Washington <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaindependent.com\">must not have told <\/a>the &#8220;Independent&#8217;s&#8221; staff what to think yet.<\/p>\n<p>The MinnPost?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/stories\/2009\/02\/03\/6405\/coleman-franken_contest_the_universe_contracts_trial_could_expand_mechanics_remain_mysterious#4-6405\">This is so complicated<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>So read the Powerguys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we on the final leg of Minnesota&#8217;s endless recount? Maybe not.\u00a0 But the Ramsey County court hearing Senator Coleman&#8217;s petition on the improperly yesterday rejected ballots has ruled [PDF alert!], largely, in Coleman&#8217;s favor. Scott Johnson at Powerline writes: The order entered by the three-judge panel presiding in the Coleman election contest proceeding is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}