James at OTB is saying:
Senator Ted Stevens, who looked to have narrowly won re-election to the Senate weeks after being convicted on felony corruption charges, has now apparently lost as absentee ballots are slowly counted.
Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a Washington political power and Alaska icon who couldn’t survive a conviction on federal corruption charges. His defeat by Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich moves Senate Democrats within two seats of a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority.
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Tuesday’s tally of just over 24,000 absentee and other ballots gave Begich 146,286, or 47.56 percent, to 143,912, or 46.76 percent, for Stevens.
Ted Stevens
A recount is possible.
Interestingly, I’m not seeing any cries of Foul, as has been the case in Minnesota, where new votes for Al Franken seem to be discovered on an hourly basis.
Well, first of all, I would attribute that to a lesser Democrat party orginization in Alaska, than there is in Minnesota. That said, trust me, if Franken wasn’t close enough to make a court case,, all those lawyers he’s got tied up there would be in Alaska before the next snowflake fell.
Even absent all that, I doubt the Republicans will push a recount. However such a recount falls out, it’s bound to be used as a wedge issue up there, going forward.
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