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  • Franken Camp's Claim: The Hand Count Is Over -- And We're Up By Four Votes!

    12/05/2008 11:42:47 AM PST · by lewisglad · 33 replies · 2,535+ views
    Talking Points Memo-Election Central ^ | 12/5/08 1:41 PM | Eric Kleefeld
    Four votes. That's how many votes the Franken campaign just said they're leading Norm Coleman by, with the hand recount now officially finished. In other words, with every single precinct in Minnesota now done counting (except for the one where they're still searching for the missing votes), the Franken campaign is claiming the lead. An extremely slim lead, but a lead nonetheless. "We are not declaring victory -- we are moving into the next stage of the process," said Franken's lead recount lawyer Marc Elias, in a press briefing going on now with reporters. "But we are going into that...