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STF enlarge Gerald Herbert / AP Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is pursued by members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, after attending a Republican Caucus.
Stevens' Lead Shrinks to 971 Votes, With Many Yet to be Counted
fivethirtyeight.com 11/13/2008 — The state of Alaska is now reporting that Ted Stevens has 118,602 votes to Mark Begich's 117,631, a gap of 971 ballots. This incorporates 28,519 ballots which have been counted since this morning. Prior to today, Stevens' lead over Begich had been ...
Begich Pulls Ahead of Stevens In Alaska Vote Count
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/13/2008 — Hmm, maybe convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) didn't get re-elected last week.
Stevens shocked the political world when the election-night tallies showed him leading Democratic opponent Mark Begich by about 3,000 votes, despite the fact that ...
Begich Takes Lead Over Stevens
feedproxy.google.com 11/13/2008 — Mark Begich (D) made a dramatic comeback to overtake Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) for the lead in Alaska's U.S. Senate race, the Anchorage Daily News reports.
After a day of counting absentee and early ballots, Begich, who was losing after election night ...
Stevens, and Chambliss in Trouble
taylormarsh.com 11/13/2008 — BY TAYLOR MARSH
By now you know that the Anchorage Daily News reports that Begich leads Stevens by just 3 votes.
The elections division still has over 10,000 ballots left to count today and thousands more through next week, but the latest ...
Stevens Pollster: Race Is Over, Begich Will Win
huffingtonpost.com 11/13/2008 — Alaska-based GOP pollster David Dittman, who worked for Sen. Ted Stevens during this year's primary race, believes Democratic challenger Mark Begich is all but certain to expand his current razor-thin lead and snatch the seat.
"I don't think ...
Still More Signs That Stevens Is Going Down
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/14/2008 — Here's yet another sign that the Democrats are poised to defeat Alaska GOP Senator and convicted felon Ted Stevens and pick up this key seat in a deep-red state.
The Anchorage Daily News analyzed the remaining 41,000 ballots left to be counted in ...
Stevens GOP expulsion vote delayed
politico.com 11/18/2008 — The GOP conference won't vote on Ted Stevens' expulsion today, pending the resolution of the Alaska count - which now favors his Democratic opponent Mark Begich.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, who has pushed hardest for Stevens' expulsion, says he ...
Stevens not seeking pardon
politico.com 11/18/2008 — Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) ducked out of a GOP conference meeting briefly and talked with reporters waiting outside. He said that he has not been asked to make any remarks and appeared confident and upbeat, flashing a smile. The image ...
Stevens Avoids GOP Ejection... For Now
blogs.abcnews.com 11/18/2008 — ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) had faced a vote by his colleagues this morning to kick him out of the Senate Republican conference, of which he is the senior member. While that secret...
Moment Of Doom Creeps Closer For Stevens As Begich's Lead Grows
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/19/2008 — It looks more and more like GOP Senator and convicted felon Ted Stevens is finished.
The latest numbers from Alaska: Democratic challenger Mark Begich 146,286 votes, Stevens 143,912 votes, a Begich lead of 2,374 votes. Begich's lead has more than ...
Happy Birthday, Ted Stevens. You lose.
latimesblogs.latimes.com 11/18/2008 — Alaska's long-serving Republican senator, Ted Stevens , turned 85 today.
He also lost an election recount against his Democratic opponent, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich .
Which means Stevens does not get a seventh term. And it means one more ...
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens loses re-election bid
stoptheaclu.com 11/19/2008 — Why this is news, I have no idea. The man was crazy not to resign and concede after a conviction!
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall ...
With Ted Stevens' Tragic Loss, the Good Old America Is Gone Forever
news.aol.com 11/19/2008 — It's official, and it's a national tragedy: Ted Stevens has lost his Senate seat to some Democrat, in Alaska. Stevens has been serving in the U.S. Senate since 1968, back when two-month-old Barack Obama was probably wearing Indonesian diapers and ...
AP: Ted Stevens Has Lost Re-Election
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/19/2008 — The Associated Press has projected that GOP Senator and convicted felon Ted Stevens has lost re-election, with the final major batch of absentee ballots giving Democratic challenger Mark Begich an insurmountable lead.
The current vote count : ...
Begich After All
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 11/19/2008 —
Of all the Election Day results, Ted Stevens’ re-election in Alaska was probably the one that surprised me most. Except now the recount’s done and it seems that Stevens has lost . It’s a pretty earth-shattering event in Alaska ...
Stevens Loses Re-Election Bid —
Outside The Beltway | OTB
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 ...
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Your Iceberg Is Waiting... —
Hit & Run
It's official: Felonious Sen. Ted " Wounded Bull " Stevens (pictured at right) has lost his seat in the U.S. Senate, the world's greatest (and possibly fattest ) deliberative body. From the AP: Stevens' pursuit of a seventh term was damaged by his conviction in federal ...
Another one bites the dust —
Wizbang
Convicted Senator Ted Stevens has lost his re-election bid in Alaska. Mark Begich has defeated Sen. Ted Stevens in the election for U.S. Senate. The Democratic Anchorage mayor widened his...
stevens job down the tubez —
skippy the bush kangaroo
convicted felon ted stevens has lost his re-election bid to the senate. asspress : 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 ...
Bye Bye Senator Ted Stevens - Finally —
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska
Good riddance to the corrupt and convicted felon senior Senator from Alaska.
Tuesday’s vote count showed the convicted Alaska Senator trailing Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,700 votes– more than the 2,500 overseas ballots still uncounted.
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GOOD-BYE, TED STEVENS! “It’s official, and it’s a national tragedy: Ted Stevens has lost his Senate seat to some Democrat, in Alaska. Today, on his 85th birthday, the convicted felon and old white Republican Ted Stevens has been voted out of the office — voted out of ...
UPDATE: Alaska Senator Ted Stevens Defeated —
The Moderate Voice
NYTimes The Caucus :
Update | 8:43 p.m. With most of the remaining ballots counted in Alaska, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich appears to have unseated long-time Senator Ted Stevens, widening the Democrat’s lead to 3,724 votes. The new count pretty much closes the door on Mr. Stevens’ hopes of ...
Ted Stevens loses Alaska Senate election. —
Think Progress
The AP reports :
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term.
The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday’s count.
That’s an insurmountable lead with only about 2,500 overseas ...
Stevens Slips Further Behind Begich in AK —
The BRAD BLOG
From Bloomberg:
Democratic challenger Mark Begich extended his lead over Alaska Senator Ted Stevens with about 10,000 ballots still to be counted, according to the state's elections division.
Begich now leads by 2,374 votes as the remaining ballots are tallied from the Nov. 4 election, ...
What’s next for Uncle Ted? —
HorsesAss.Org
I was listening to an NPR report on the recently convicted Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who appears to be headed toward a narrow defeat against Democratic challenger Mark Begich, and the question arose: “What’s next for Ted Stevens?”
Well, considering today is Stevens’ ...
Sen. Stevens May Seek Pardon —
The Latest on Air America
Convicted felon, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, is all but certainly going to fail in his bid for reelection (we’ll find out tomorrow). Adding insult to injury, he’s probably going to need a presidential pardon. After telling Politico that he won’t ask for a pardon, he now unsays it after a ...
Republicans Postpone Vote To Expell Ted Stevens —
Say Anything
Sigh...
Embattled Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said Tuesday that he was happy Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) decided to postpone a vote to expel him from the Republican Conference.
The more appropriate description of Senator Stevens is indicted and convicted . And Republicans, if they are ...
GOP punts on Stevens. —
Think Progress
In their GOP conference meeting today, Senate Republicans punted “on the thorniest question – whether to formally expel Sen. Ted Stevens from their ranks .” Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) had planned to offer a resolution that read :
Resolved that Sen. Ted Stevens not be invited to future Republican ...
Sen. Ted Stevens now begging for his political life —
Crooks and Liars
Via Roll Call we hear that disgraced Senator Ted Stevens is pleading with his senate colleagues. As with Larry Craig, the Republicans are turning their backs. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is reportedly calling his Republican colleagues in the hope of shoring up support before an expected vote ...
Mark Begich widens lead over Ted Stevens —
Crooks and Liars
Let's hope this trend continues and Stevens finally gets the axe.
Democrat Mark Begich now leads Sen. Ted Stevens (R) by just over 1,000 votes with more than 90 percent of the total ballots now counted in the high-profile Alaska Senate race.
The Alaska Division of Elections counted another ...
Stevens lawyer is gloomy —
Politico Live's Blogs
HuffPo says one of Ted Stevens' pollsters thinks he's toast.
Alaska-based GOP pollster David Dittman, who worked for Sen. Ted Stevens during this year's primary race, believes Democratic challenger Mark Begich is all but certain to expand his current razor-thin lead and snatch the seat.
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