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I’m not a pundit or operative. I’ve got no dog in any fight that will culminate with Tuesday’s elections, and, maybe, in recounts.

I’m a former sports writer who stumbled into covering the 2008 U.S. Senate recount in Minnesota. After following the eight-month-long saga, I wrote a book about it all called, “This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won The Minnesota Senate Recount.”

http://www.thisisnotflorida.com

It’s been favorably reviewed and, as far as I can tell, not challenged for its factual reporting by Minnesota or national Republicans.

That’s why I found Michael Thielen’s post last week to be so inaccurate as it pertained to the Minnesota experience:

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