You know you are headed for defeat when your own pollster predicts that you will end up losing when all of the votes are counted.
“I don’t think Stevens can come back,” Dittman said, noting that he thinks the remaining trove of uncounted ballots will help Begich “increase his lead.”…
Dittman believes early and absentee ballots, which compromise the approximately 40,000 votes left to count, will likely reflect Begichs’ overall advantage so far among those who took advantage of either process. Heavy early voting occurred in the period that directly followed Stevens’ conviction on seven felony counts of making false statements on his Senate financial disclosure forms.
This is good news, indeed. On a personal note, I will be travelling back to Michigan tomrorrow and my elderly parents do not even have a computer, let alone access to the internet. I was wondering if some kind soul would be willing to send me text messages to my mobile phone to keep me up to date? If I don’t have vote counting information, I’ll go insane. Feel free to send me an email and I will give you the number. Any assistance will be much appreciated. Thanks.
Nome, Bethel, and Anchorage should all favor Begich.
Looks like the Senate will have to find a new “Grinch”.
Seriously, paint him green and you have the Grinch. I remember when he was trying to attach drilling in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge to a Defense Appropriations bill and was threatening to keep everybody there through Christmas. Fortunately, all he got was a lump of coal for his efforts.
I guess fate had had enough of Ted’s proclamations of resignation and decided to not only retire him but make him spend his “golden” years in…THE BIG HOUSE!
BTW, Ted, I hear “Duke” Cunningham and Jim Traficant are looking for cell mates. 😉
What the hell is going on in OH-15? I thought they had a lot of absentees and provisionals to count. Why have there been no vote updates in well over a weel now? It’s been Stivers by like 150 votes for a long time.