{"id":5361,"date":"2009-01-05T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T18:02:57","slug":"al-franken-looks-set-to-win-minnesota-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/01\/05\/al-franken-looks-set-to-win-minnesota-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken Looks Set to Win Minnesota Senate Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest010509\/2009_01_05_hogarth.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest010509\/2009_01_05_uprising.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.tihii.de\/sop\/alfranken.jpg\" alt=\"franken\" \/>When election officials in Minnesota finished their vote recount on Saturday, Al Franken, the comedian-turned-politician was leading incumbent Norm Coleman by 225 votes for the state&#8217;s Senate seat. Minnesota&#8217;s canvassing board is expected to sign off on the results of the recount today &#8211; however, it will be a week before it is certified. New York Senator Charles Schumer has called for Franken to be seated tomorrow when the Senate convenes. But there is still a court case by Coleman&#8217;s campaign pending and Republicans are vowing to block Franken&#8217;s seating until that has been resolved. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Paul Hogarth, managing editor of BeyondChron.org<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program When election officials in Minnesota finished their vote recount on Saturday, Al Franken, the comedian-turned-politician was leading incumbent Norm Coleman by 225 votes for the state&#8217;s Senate seat. Minnesota&#8217;s canvassing board is expected to sign off on the results of the recount today &#8211; however, it will be a week before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}