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This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount
Jay Weiner
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Description for This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; JPHF; JPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
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 ensuing recount, and the contentious legal and public relations battle that would play out between the Franken and Coleman lawyers and staff, simultaneously fascinated and frustrated Minnesotans and the nation-all while a filibuster-proof Senate hung in the balance.
This Is Not Florida is the behind-the-scenes saga of the largest, longest, and ... Read more
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 ensuing recount, and the contentious legal and public relations battle that would play out between the Franken and Coleman lawyers and staff, simultaneously fascinated and frustrated Minnesotans and the nation-all while a filibuster-proof Senate hung in the balance.
This Is Not Florida is the behind-the-scenes saga of the largest, longest, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816670383
SKU
V9780816670383
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About Jay Weiner
Jay Weiner's coverage of the 2008 U.S. Senate recount and election contest between Norm Coleman and Al Franken earned him the 2008 Frank Premack Public Affairs Journalism Award, Minnesota's highest journalism honor. A sports journalist with the Minneapolis Star Tribune for twenty-eight years, he has written for the Twin Cities-based news Web site MinnPost.com since 2007 and is the author ... Read more
Reviews for This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount
"Weiner provides a lively play-by-play of a recount that fascinated the state, if not the nation." —The New Yorker "Those who were pulling for Al Franken will enjoy this detailed account of how the 2008 Senate race in Minnesota and its subsequent recount contributed to the Democrats' total of 60 senators—the magic number needed to beat back a Republican filibuster. ... Read more