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Why Norm Coleman lost
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Jun 30, 2009 06:47pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Author | Manu Raju and Josh Kraushaar |
| News Date | Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:45:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Republican Party put an inordinate amount of faith in Norm Coleman’s long-shot legal challenge, spending a million bucks on the idea that he’d catch a break in court.
But like dominoes, each Coleman legal challenge failed, one after another, ruling after ruling, until the final, decisive blow Tuesday when the Minnesota Supreme Court picked apart Coleman’s arguments and awarded Democrat Al Franken the Senate seat.
Even though national Republicans talked a big game about taking this case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Coleman had two key reasons to give up: he was running out of money and the state high court decisively rejected his constitutional arguments – undermining any case he might have made in federal court.
And there may have been another driving factor in Coleman’s concession: His political future. Coleman has been talked up as a potential candidate for governor, and once the state Supreme Court spoke, it would have been difficult to maintain credibility in his home state while holding up the Senate decision. |
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