"The remaining ballots will provide us an answer as to whether Alaska is so corrupt that they would re-elect a convicted felon. But the trend so far appears to be in favor of a Begich win."

Eric - cupcake - COME ON!!!! Stop promulgating this nonsense.

People voted for the PARTY - not the CANDIDATE.

The ONLY hope they had for a Republican to retain the seat 9since they knew Stevens would be expelled if he won) was to VOTE FOR HIM - and thereby force a runoff election in which ANORTHER GOP candidate would be offered.

I mean, really, what is so difficult to understand about this????? Most were NOT voting for a 'felon' - but a seat they want occupied by a REPUBLICAN at a later date.

Hmmm.  So they stopped counting when Begich nosed ahead by 3 votes?

Will someone please help me understand how in the world were there 90K votes uncounted on election night?

Keeping my fingers crossed. Mudflats reports that the Alaska districts that will be counted later (perhaps on Friday) are the ones that favor Begich.

One more reason to just say no to Holy Joe.
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All I can say right now is, THANK GOD Barack Obama didn't pick Evan Bayh to be his Vice President. Right now, he's trying to make an argument to Rachel Maddow that Lieberman should be allowed to keep his Chairmanship. And his argument basically amounts to "Leverage? What's this leverage of which you speak? We need Joe because we're not tough or smart enough to get any of those Republicans to vote for our bills."

Democrats like Bayh make my skin crawl, and is a huge reason why before Bush pissed me the hell of to such a ridiculous degree, I considered myself an independent that just happened to vote Democratic.

Lieberman needs to be held accountable for his actions, and if Reid can't figure out how to squeeze 2 or 3 votes out of some moderate Republicans to pass something like Health Care, then we need new leadership.

Now if we can just get Franken to finish off Coleman, everything would be dandy!

And can someone tell me what the deal is with Missouri?

It would be great if both Alaska, and Minnesota would flip in the next two weeks. Then the eyes of the country would be on the Peach state.

Then if someone like Bill Clinton (Obamas too busy with transitioning to do more campaigning) would do one huge rally in Atlanta to help get that last 60th seat.

Sounds good, but Minnesota will go on until mid December.

If Begich can pull this off, it will be a huge blow to Palin.

Palin as much as admitted to Wolf Blitzer today that she wants Stevens' Senate seat. Until today it wasn't clear if Palin wanted the seat. With that question answered, the rest is fated. If Stevens were to win, he would be ejected and Palin would stand a exceedingly good chance of winning a special election in February or March.

Stevens victor = Senator Palin.

The pending Begich victory puts a huge crimp in Palin's plans for world domination. She obviously wants the hell out of a Alaska, now she's got to stick it out in the hinterlands. A Senator can spend a huge amount of time out of state without taking a hit, a Governor can't.

Two big blows in a little more than a week. Sucks to be Palin, hehe.

No joy in the grifter household when family Palin wakes up this morning!

Hmmm this would set up for Palin in 2014 running for the seat then going for Pres in 2016 at the end of Obama's second term.

The Bible Spice follies continue.

If, as the political historians are predicting, the natural reflex after total destruction of their party is to go even further to the right then Palin fits the bill.

If it is to be a Goldwater type of republican realignment that tries to expand off of the 25% of the public that thinks Bush did (is doing) a good job 2012 will make this election look close.

Next time around it could be the wingnut election with the queen of Alaska and closet meth head getting top billing.

Speaking of the Senate, there's one race where we can still affect the outcome and Kleiman's latest post inspired me to contribute to Martin's runoff campaign against the revolting Saxby Chambliss.

https://services.myngp.com/ngponlineservices/contribution.aspx?X=NqjXO81IXYZntPaqXypreP1LqSo0CHUy

Make sure to tell him in the comment field that your contribution is in hopes that he'll support Obama's initiatives.

The best part about this count, should the new alignment hold, is that Failin Palin will have to earn her next political position. No appointments. And now that Alaskans have seen her for the fraud that she is, this may very well be the end of her pathetic political career.

A snow machine makes snow. Alaska probably doesn't have that problem and doesn't know such a machine exists, but every time I hear them use that phrase I cringe. It's like they didn't think "mobile" was masculine enough...

Palin could have real trouble getting re-elected Governor assuming she doesn't get a shot at the senate seat, because in 2010 when she is up for re-election is when the GOP primary season will begin and her goal would be to serve half the term in her best case scenario. So right after she got elected she'd be absent while campaigning and planning for her primary run. She has made it well known that she has plans to move to Washington politics, usually most politicians play coy with making such statements because they know it hurts them in re-election bids.