Coleman surfaces
Republican Norm Coleman made an appearance on a conservative radio show today. I can't find the entire interview (it's a paid subscriber site) but a spokeswoman for the MN GOP directed me to three audio clips (via YouTube) from the Michael Medved show.
You can listen to them here, here and here.
Here's what the audio clips say:
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Senator Coleman: "Paraphrasing Mark Twain, you know, reports of my
defeat are greatly exaggerated. I was 700 votes ahead the night of the
election, about 400 votes when the recount started, 225 votes, I think
200 something votes at the beginning of the recount and I think that at
the end of the recount Al Franken has a 225 vote lead. However, there
were a couple of major areas where the canvassing board and our supreme
court said 'we can't decide this stuff. You need to do this in a
contested case."
Senator Coleman: "I think a basic American principle, Michael, is, we,
this election is not over until we make sure some votes have not counted
twice."
Senator Coleman: "We firmly believe that when everything is counted
fairly and uniformly, we believe that we will be where we were on
Election Night and that is me being ahead."