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SOMETHING SMELLS VERY FISHY IN ALASKA
SOMETHING SMELLS VERY FISHY IN ALASKA
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 Alaska, more people voted for George W. Bush in ...
Uncounted Votes May Push Begich Past Stevens
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
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?
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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Around the blogroll and elsewhere: Because I am too tired to write
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... But at the end of the day, I am TIRED. I would love to write about how Camp Grover Norquist is not only throwing Sarah Palin under the bus but backing over her a few times, and how Joe Lieberman may be about to learn that you cannot campaign for the other party's guy and expect your own party to welcome you back with open arms. I want to write about voting machine problems in Minnesota where Al Franken trails Norm "Teeth" Coleman by only 337 votes, and how turnout in Alaska seems unusually low for an election which saw that state's governor on a ...

What Turnout Increase?
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... .  That, or Republicans are trying to steal the election.  (Only to turn around and help vote to kick Ted Stevens out of office again? How does that make sense?) ...

Surrender Monkey Friday: Moonbat Over Alaska
Pirate's Cove — Surrendie is having a good chuckle today. First, he got to witness the most inexperience presidential candidate win, a guy who was voted in by people who had not a clue who the guy was, and, now, moonbats going moonbat over something or other looking wonky in Alaska STOLEN ELECTION IN ALASKA? (Also cross posted here) 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 ...

Surrender Monkey Friday: Moonbat Over Alaska
Stop The ACLU — surrender monkey victory Surrendie is having a good chuckle today. First, he got to witness the most inexperience presidential candidate win, a guy who was voted in by people who had not a clue who the guy was, and, now, moonbats going moonbat over something or other looking wonky in Alaska STOLEN ELECTION IN ALASKA? (Also ...

Brad Friedman: Filibuster-Proof Democratic Majority Begins to Line Up in U.S. Senate
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Alaska votes on paper, they are tabulated on faulty, hackable, and often inaccurate Diebold op-scanners (more details on that below). The state has also been a long-time Diebold "company town", as it's one of the few places where the Democratic Party has actually fought for election integrity by suing the state for database records of how voters voted, following reported turnout rates of more than 200% in some areas in the state's highly questionable 2004 election. See our latest coverage here and from last night here. ...

Post-election: Time for everybody to regroup
The Reaction — ... Security. This followed her apparent leak of Obama's aunt's name and immigration status. GOP policy changes are being discussed among the old guard. Bill Kristol thinks it would be a good idea to keep PNAC going,# "to help Omama if he does the right thing." God help us! And among Congressional Republicans, resignations and switches are happening with the speed only losers can muster. And all John Boehner seems to be able to do is bluster. The Alaskan election situation* is very murky, and all Palin fans do is continue to dig their hole ...

Alaska Update: Thousands of Ballots 'Found', One-Third Remain Uncounted in Still-Fishy Election
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... Previously related... • 11/6/08: "SOMETHING SMELLS VERY FISHY IN ALASKA" http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6644 • 11/9/08: "Alaska Stinks & Minnesota's on Edge, So Here's What Parties and Citizens Can Do to Try and Ensure Election Results with Integrity There and Elsewhere" ...

Thousands of Ballots Discovered in Alaska
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... This just in from Alaska, where thousands of new ballots continue to be found each day, since it was first reported that turnout in 2008 was 11% lower than in 2004.  Thousands of ballots, nearly a third of them, remain uncounted nearly a week after the election. Their numbers could explain the strange results so far in races --- such as those of the felonious Sen. Ted Stevens (R) and the under-investigation Rep. Don Young (R) --- for which pollsters had predicted decisive losses for the Republicans. ...

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