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Senator Stevens Hanging by a Thread in Alaska
nytimes.com - 11/6/2008
Senator Stevens Hanging by a Thread in Alaska
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Senator Ted Stevens led by fewer than 3,400 votes with more than 55,000 ballots left to count. >

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Uncounted Votes May Push Begich Past Stevens
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/8/2008
Uncounted Votes May Push Begich Past Stevens
— fivethirtyeight.com — 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 ... (more) Uncounted Votes May Push Begich Past Stevens

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fivethirtyeight.com - 11/6/2008
What In The Hell Happened in Alaska?
— fivethirtyeight.com — Although Ted Stevens holds a small lead in Alaska and is the favorite to retain his seat, the outcome is not as inevitable as it might appear to be. Stevens currently holds a lead of 3,353 votes, or about 1.5 percent of the votes tallied so far. But, ... (more) What In The Hell Happened in Alaska?

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adn.com - 11/5/2008
Stevens leads Begich by thin margin: 2008 Election
— 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 ... (more) Stevens leads Begich by thin margin: 2008 Election

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The Early Word: McCain-Palin Post-Mortem
The Caucus — ... The Times’s Carl Hulse and David M. Herszenhorn report. The fate of Senator Ted Stevens’s re-election bid remains in limbo – about 3,400 votes separate him from his Democratic challenger. Mr. Stevens of Alaska was convicted of seven felony counts for ethics violations last months. And residents in California, Arizona and Florida ...

Alaska Wilderness (Poll Edition)
The Caucus — ... are at 76,729, fewer than those registered as non-partisan (77,227) or undeclared (185,587). Of the 495,731 registered voters, only 224,057 cast votes. It is still too early to tell the demographics of those who stayed home. There was one poll considered non-partisan conducted in Alaska, but that was taken from Oct 17-19, before Mr. Stevens’s conviction. Craciun Research Group showed a close race — Mr. Begich at 46 percent, Mr. Stevens at 45. As William Yardley writes in Thursday’s Times : The senator’s campaign said that such late-counted votes traditionally break for ...

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