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Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 11:45 AM

The Moderate Voice: Something Stinks in Alaska

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What In The Hell Happened in Alaska? asks Nate Silver. Good question. As of right now , Republican incumbent Ted Stevens is leading Democratic challenger Mark Begich 48 to 47 (with 99 percent reporting) in their Senate race. The margin is 3,353 (with almost 210,000 votes counted). As I mentioned the other day , however, there are tens of thousands of ballots left to count: absentee and early ballots, as well as questioned ones. So what stinks? 1) As Nate Silver points out, even with all the ballots left to be counted, the total number of votes will only be about 270,000, far less than the 313,000 cast in 2004. 2) As Nate also points out, the polls showed Begich well ahead. And it wasn't just the Senate race. The polls also...
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