The Election Contest Court, apparently unwilling to let the Coleman campaign pay three-card ballot monte any more, gave the the two campaigns a list of nineteen categories of absentee ballots and told them to figure out, by 4:00 pm today, which ones are legal ballots and which ones aren’t. This will streamline, speed up and un-cherry-pick the reviewing process, which Coleman’s team had deliberately slowed down by trying to force thousands of cherry-picked absentee ballots into the system.

“Some say” Jim Moran is a liability to his brother Brian’s gubernatorial campaign; except, of course, the two people quoted in the article, both of whom support Brian despite their differences with his brother Jim.

The 4,797-ballot universe of properly-rejected absentee ballots from Coleman strongholds that Norm Coleman wants counted has as of this morning shrunk to around 4,300.  But it might grow again, as the Coleman campaign is apparently back to its old three-card monte tricks of adding and withdrawing ballots.   Analysis of Hennepin County data hints that Coleman [...]

As I mentioned last week, an analysis of the 4,797-ballot universe Norm Coleman asked for shows that Al Franken is likely to gain, not lose, from Coleman’s maneuver. So why did Coleman do it? Because he wants to drag this thing out, baby.

Faced with three busloads of Terry McAuliffe supporters, a hundred of whom paraded up and down the street in front of last night’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Richmond, progressive gubernatorial hopeful Brian Moran let loose.

Have you ever heard a candidate for Congress advocate America increase Social Security benefits, implement single-payer universal health care, and require consumer debt reduction from bailed-out banks?

As a congressman and as governor of New Hampshire, Judd Gregg opposed the creation of a state holiday honoring the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. While much attention last year went to Arizona’s long denial of a state holiday, New Hampshire’s holiday was created later.

Rachel Maddow calls Hilda Solis’s confirmation fight as the first phase in this year’s party-defining fight over Eff-Ka, an unfortunate acronym for Employee Free Choice Act, where employees can sign up to form a union. She interviews Illinois Congressman Phil Hare, who asks, “Why can employees de-certify a union by majority sign up, but they can’t certify one that way?”

The UpTake’s Noah Kunin – he of the rejected absentee ballot – tries his hand at breaking down the 4,797 absentee ballots of the Coleman ballot universe (that is, the properly-rejected absentee ballots that Coleman got the ECC to review), with the help of TomTech, longtime Daily Kos diarist. Guess what? Their first scenario winds up extending Franken’s lead by 85 votes, from 225 to 310. More scenarios to come.

Barack Obama’s Labor Department needs a leader now. It’s time to end the delaying tactics. The obstruction must stop. Hilda Solis must be confirmed. You can tell the Senate to act right here.