politico.com - 11/2/2008
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has issued his strongest statement to date about Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, saying that a "convicted felon" has no place in the Senate.
Shortly before midnight Saturday, Reid said that "the reality is that a convicted felon is not going to be ...
rollcall.com - 11/2/2008
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rollcall.com —
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was forced
into the middle of Sen. Ted Stevens' (R-Alaska) re-election
bid late Saturday night after a senior Senate Democrat endorsed Stevens and called on voters to disregard his seven-count felony conviction.
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Reid Says Stevens Cannot Serve
adn.com - 10/31/2008
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adn.com —
With just four days before the election and
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens insisting he's not a felon,
the U.S. Senate race is white hot. "I've not been convicted yet," Stevens said Thursday in a meeting with the editorial board of the Fairbanks Daily ...
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Senate race in final leg: Top Stories
adn.com - 11/5/2008
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adn.com —
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was leading challenger Mark
Begich with most of the election returns in hand
Tuesday night, despite being found guilty of seven felonies and polls showing him in deep trouble. With more than 80 percent of the precincts ...
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Stevens leads Begich by thin margin: 2008 Election
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Democratic Sen. Inouye Says Stevens Will Keep His Seat in the Senate
Weekly Standard Blog —
... have called on Stevens to resign. Stevens believes that he should be able to retain his seat as long as he is appealing his case, but Harry Reid responded to Inouye's remarks by emphatically stating that Stevens would be tossed out of Congress by his fellow senators if the voters don't do so on Tuesday: "While I respect the opinion of Sen. Inouye, the reality is that a convicted felon is not going to be able to serve in the United States Senate.... As precedent shows us, Sen. Stevens will face an ethics committee investigation and expulsion, regardless of the ...
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Editors: Republican Conviction
article.nationalreview.com 10/29/2008 — The Republican party only has itself to blame for being in the unenviable position of depending upon the good name of Ted Stevens.
Reid: Stevens "not going to survive"
politico.com 11/9/2008 — Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) believes his colleagues will expel Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens from the Senate following his felony conviction — and subsequent re-election.
"He’s been convicted of seven felonies," ...
Anchorage rally welcomes Stevens
adn.com 10/30/2008 — Sen. Ted Stevens returned to Alaska on Wednesday for the first time since his conviction, telling a crowd of supporters he made a mistake but is not a criminal and needs their help to save his re-election.
Stevens guilty on 7 counts, won't quit Senate race - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 10/27/2008 — WASHINGTON Ted Stevens , a pillar of the Senate for 40 years and the face of Alaska politics almost since statehood, was convicted of a seven-felony string of corruption charges Monday found guilty of accepting a bonanza of home renovations and ...
Stevens lives to see another day -- for now
washingtonmonthly.com 11/18/2008 — STEVENS LIVES TO SEE ANOTHER DAY -- FOR NOW.... Both Senate caucuses got together this morning for meetings that would help decide the fate of two long-time senators. For Democrats, that meant voting on Joe Lieberman's future and his committee...
Battling on the Other Side's Turf —
Wash Post Elections 11/1/2008
CHASE CITY, Va. Highway 47 winds past Elke's Dog Resort, past the big yard full of old tires and shiny hubcaps, and the barren, barbed-wired fields with horses in the distance. Like many small towns in rural America, this one has a Main Street, which ...
Down the ballot: Supporting Stevens —
First Read 11/2/2008
ALASKA: "Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye
provided a campaign boost Saturday to embattled Republican Sen. Ted
Stevens, predicting that his colleague from Alaska will win re-election
and overturn his conviction on appeal. 'I am absolutely confident ...
Hard-Fought Battle in Hard-Hit Ohio —
Wash Post In Congress 11/3/2008
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio, Nov. 2 -- With the presidential campaigns pressing to get out the vote in the race's final hours, no state is being more fiercely contested than Ohio, which provided President Bush with his decisive margin of victory four years ...
Stevens Juror Lied to Be Dismissed —
Wash Post Federal Page 11/4/2008
A juror who was dismissed from the trial of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) after she told the judge that her father had died in California admitted in court yesterday that her excuse was a lie: She actually left town to attend a horse race.
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