How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount
by
Jay Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
On July 7, 2009, Al Franken was sworn in as Minnesota's junior U.S. senator-eight months after Election Night. In the chill of November 2008, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman led by a slim 215 votes, a margin that triggered an automatic statewide recount of more than 2.9 million ballots. Minnesota's...