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NEWS ABOUT: Recount

Recount stories: 4 news summaries

HBO Plans Film Version of 2008 Election Book

Film will look at events from candidates' perspectives

Apr 14, 09 2:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - HBO Films has picked up Game Change, a book about the 2008 election, to adapt for the small screen. The book, to be published next year, takes a character-driven look at the campaigns from the perspectives of the candidates and their camps, says Variety. The option continues the network’s... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • HBO • Recount • Mark Halperin • Election 2008 • adaptation • Frost/Nixon • John Heilemann • The Queen

Franken Thiiis Close, Down 204 in Minn. Vote Count

Unofficial tally has Senate race just about neck and neck

Nov 10, 08 1:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Al Franken’s razor-thin margin of defeat in Minnesota’s Senate race is even thinner today, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. The latest count has Franken trailing incumbent Norm Coleman by 204 votes, down from 221 over the weekend. Coleman appeared to have won by 725 votes last Wednesday, but... More »

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Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • Recount • Senate race • Election 2008

Minn. Battle
Has Nothing on '74-75 Marathon

Dem Durkin finally won
NH Senate seat after revote 10 months later

Nov 9, 08 6:01 AM CST
(Newser) - The vitriolic standoff between Al Franken and Norm Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race—headed for a recount, then likely the courts and possibly the Senate—could take many months to resolve, judging from a precedent in New Hampshire 34 years ago, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. That fight, after... More »

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Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • Recount • election results • election history • John Durkin • Louis Wyman

Lights,
Camera,
Chads!

Set your TiVo
for Gore v. Bush,
the HBO movie

Nov 7, 07 5:22 PM CST
(Newser) - If you enjoyed the disputed 2000 election in real life, you get to experience it all over again by watching Recount, an HBO movie that will tell the story of intrigue among the butterfly ballots and hanging chads. The movie is now being filmed in Tallahassee, though some insiders sniff... More »

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HBO • accident • Election 2000 • Recount • Laura Dern • Katherine Harris

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