usatoday.com - 11/15/2008
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Election workers, from left, Carolyn DiPaul and Nancy Marx; Jennifer Allen of the Begich campaign, and Kim Chatman confer about a ballot Tuesday.
news.yahoo.com - 11/19/2008
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AP - 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 ...
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Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens loses re-election bid
(AP)
adn.com - 11/18/2008
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adn.com —
Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich's lead over Sen. Ted
Stevens is growing as ballot counting continues today in...
the race for U.S. Senate. The latest numbers, issued just before 1 p.m., show Begich up by 2,374 votes. The state has counted over 16,000 ...
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Begich lead over Stevens grows: 2008 Election
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Ted Stevens may face ouster from GOP Senate caucus
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... to be the first Democrat to win an Alaskan senate race since the mid-1970s with his challenge of GOP Sen. Ted Stevens, currently embroiled in a corruption scandal. Also next week, Stevens' GOP colleagues in the Senate may consider whether to kick the Senate's longest-serving Republican out of their caucus. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., will demand the vote on Tuesday even if the Alaska race remains undecided or headed for a recount, spokesman Wesley Denton said Thursday. Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008...
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Daily Kos —
... Senate Republicans may vote on Tuesday to kick Ted Stevens out of the Republican caucus, regardless of the outcome of the vote in Alaska. ...
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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.
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adn.com 11/16/2008 — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is in grave danger of losing re-election after Mark Begich widened his lead to 1,022 votes Friday.
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CNN Political Ticker 11/13/2008
(CNN) — Republican Sen. Ted Stevens has fallen 814 votes behind Democratic challenger Mark Begich as vote counting continues in Alaska.
The Anchorage mayor was trailing Stevens in the initial count, which did not include at least 90,000 ...
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