elections.nytimes.com - 11/6/2008
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State Highlights Barely a week after he was convicted on seven felony counts, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska held on to a narrow lead in his bid for re-election. With 99 percent of the vote counted, Mr. Stevens, a Republican, led his Democratic challenger, Mayor Mark Begich of Anchorage, 48.2 ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/8/2008
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Although Ted Stevens currently holds a lead of
approximately 3,200 votes in ballots counted to date in...
Alaska's senate contest, there is good reason to believe that the ballots yet to be counted -- the vast majority of which are early and absentee ...
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Uncounted Votes May Push Begich Past Stevens
elections.nytimes.com - 11/4/2008
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Election Results 2008 Wednesday, November 05, 2008 Skip
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President Map - Election Results 2008 - The New York Times
bradblog.com - 11/7/2008
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Guest blogged by Shannyn Moore ANCHORAGE - Something
stinks. Not just an ordinary low tide smell. Not...
like something you’d blame on the dog. It smells like an infection. For me to plug my nose, I’d have to overlook some curious facts. In ...
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SOMETHING SMELLS VERY FISHY IN ALASKA
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Alaska Wilderness (Poll Edition)
The Caucus —
The pollsters’ predictions were mostly right on election night — everywhere but the state of Alaska. As late as two days before the election, both Democratic and Republican-sponsored polls had Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, a Democrat, leading Senator Ted Stevens for the U.S. Senate seat a week after Mr. Stevens’s conviction on seven felony accounts of corruption. But on Thursday evening, Mr. Stevens (who plans to appeal his conviction), held a 3,257-vote lead over Mr. Begich, with 60,000 votes still to be counted. In addition, the state’s lone House seat was predicted by ...
Incumbent in Need of Recall Retains Seat, part 3
PoliGazette —
... Thanks to the wisdom of Alaska’s voters, our second term-limits poster boy and convicted felon Ted Stevens will apparently be returning to the senate to start this fall’s lame-duck session. Stevens has held the office since 1968, making him the 7th longest-serving senator at the moment. ...
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The Associated Press: Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens holds slim lead
ap.google.com 11/5/2008 — 1 day ago ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) With his political future uncertain, a weary Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, looking at bit deflated, left a gathering of supporters to go home and get some sleep. With 96 percent of precincts reporting, Stevens the longest ...
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