Good News for Friday Night |
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| By: Ari Friday November 14, 2008 5:00 pm | |
Begich’s lead increases:
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Begich, Mark |
DEM | 137527 | 47.40% |
| Bird, Bob | AI | 11933 | 4.11% |
| Gianoutsos, Ted | NA | 1218 | 0.42% |
| Haase, Fredrick D. | LIB | 2215 | 0.76% |
| Stevens, Ted | REP | 136466 | 47.04% |
| Write-in Votes | 763 | 0.26% |
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Good news indeed!
Begich now leads by 1061 votes!
That’s up from 824 on Wednesday so the lead continues to increase and approach the magic 1500 vote level (where it would require a state financed recount).
Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me!
Another race that’s of interest is Alaska House District #7.
Who knew that those robo-calls on your answering machine with the guy claiming he was Karl Kassel was a real guy named…Karl Kassel!
Karl Kassel (D) has 4999 votes to Mike Kelly (R) 5000 votes. 1 vote difference!!!!
36 Write-In and about 200 spoiled, or otherwise questioned ballots.
http://www.adn.com/front/story/589416.html
My best update is from Nate Silver:
There’s been an update today in the Alaska Senate race, with 11,612 more votes counted. Mark Begich now leads incumbent Ted Stevens by 1,061 votes.
Later update: 1,022. An additional 3,333 votes have been counted and Stevens pulled back 39 votes.
Per Sean Cockerham at the Anchorage Daily News, the ballots counted today:
About 510 questioned ballots from Southeast, the Peninsula and Southwest Alaska
About 5,180 absentee and questioned ballots from Mat-Su
Questioned, absentee ballots from Richardson Highway and the Interior
About 3,600 absentee and questioned ballots from Western and Northwest Alaska, and North Slope
Monday the extra Richardson Highway ballots will be counted, and Tuesday another 24,000 or so ballots will be counted from Anchorage, Southeast, Kenai Peninsula and Southwest Alaska.