Setback for Coleman

A three-judge panel in the Minnesota Senate race delivered a setback to Norm Coleman this afternoon, ruling that his campaign failed to prove there was an endemic problem counting absentee ballots throughout the state.

The court ruled that judges should use a fairly conservative standard in determining which rejected absentee ballots should be re-introduced into the count. Coleman’s campaign has been arguing that about 4,700 ballots – mostly in Republican-friendly precincts – should be included in the count.

At the end of the recount process, Coleman trailed Democrat Al Franken by 225 votes. Allowing additional absentee ballots into the count has been the crux of the Coleman campaign’s legal challenge to overcome his narrow deficit.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0209/Setback_for_Coleman.html?showall

This whole thing is driving me crazy! These are repuke stalling tactics to make it as difficult as possible for Dem's to get their legislation through the Senate (and require us to water everything down through compromise with repuke "moderates"). You better believe that's what they're up to!