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John Galt
11-12-2008, 08:46 PM
At least in the case of the election of the Senator from Alaska. The race is now down to a 3-vote difference (http://www.elect.alaska.net/data/results.htm) with more votes to be counted (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/11/alaska_senate_count_the_votes.html?hpid=topnews).
DaddyTorgo
11-12-2008, 08:55 PM
wow
stevew
11-12-2008, 11:24 PM
They keep finding more votes. Now he's up by 800.
chesapeake
11-13-2008, 09:02 AM
Him meaning that Begich is up by 800 over Uncle Ted. That would be huge.
JPhillips
11-13-2008, 09:07 AM
They keep finding more votes. Now he's up by 800.

They aren't finding votes, they just have a very delayed count for the absentee and provisional ballots.
flere-imsaho
11-13-2008, 09:14 AM
Talk about prolonging the agony....
stevew
11-13-2008, 10:12 AM
As long as they aren't finding votes in the trunk of a car, I could care less. Ted deserves to lose anyways
Daimyo
11-13-2008, 10:20 AM
It looks like Begich is going to win in Alaska and Franken has at least a 50/50 chance of winning the recount in Minnesota. How much is that Georgia run-off going to be worth to both parties?
kcchief19
11-13-2008, 01:03 PM
This Alaska vote is just bizarre ... they still have 15,000 questionable ballots and 30,000 absentee ballots to count. Anchorage has counted their outstanding ballots yet and that's Begich territory, so I think this will swing in his favor.

It still doesn't explain the huge swing in the polls to the vote (polls showed Begich up anywhere from 7 to 20-points plus) and why it looks like fewer Alaskans will vote this year when they had a favorite daughter on the ballot and an attention-grabbing senate race. Just bizarre.
chesapeake
11-13-2008, 01:50 PM
Convicted felon though he may be, Stevens has directly helped a lot of people over his many years in the Senate. In a small (population-wise) and isolated state like Alaska, that really adds up.

Maybe we have discovered a new "Stevens Effect." People were embarassed to tell a pollster that they were going to pull the lever for a convicted felon. But in the privacy of the voting booth, that is just what they did.
Ronnie Dobbs2
11-19-2008, 02:59 PM
Looks like Stevens has conceded - CNN breaking news.