{"id":1900,"date":"2009-06-30T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T19:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2009-07-01T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T14:23:31","slug":"it-could-be-senator-franken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/30\/it-could-be-senator-franken\/","title":{"rendered":"It will be &#8220;Senator&#8221; Franken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seven months of recounting U.S. Senate election results in Minnesota, that state&#8217;s Supreme Court said Democrat <a title=\"Al Franken is &quot;entitled&quot; to be certified the winner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jU76ZsLhrheYhKyMeblQdQSrgyOQD9956I6G1\" target=\"_blank\">Al Franken is &#8220;entitled&#8221; to be certified the winner<\/a>.\u00a0 GOP challenger Norm Coleman then conceded.\u00a0 When Franken\u00a0is seated, Democrats could have a 60-seat filibuster-proof majority.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor <a title=\"Linda Killian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/linda_killian.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Killian<\/a>, director of the BU <a title=\"Washington Journalism Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/washjocenter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Journalism Center<\/a>, can discuss the politics of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Linda Killian, 202-756-7801, <a href=\"mailto:lkillian@bu.edu\">lkillian@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seven months of recounting U.S. Senate election results in Minnesota, that state&#8217;s Supreme Court said Democrat Al Franken is &#8220;entitled&#8221; to be certified the winner.\u00a0 GOP challenger Norm Coleman then conceded.\u00a0 When Franken\u00a0is seated, Democrats could have a 60-seat filibuster-proof majority.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor Linda Killian, director of the BU Washington Journalism Center, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1384,1385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}