It’s official: Democrats have won the Senate race in Alaska, increasing their Senate caucus count to 58 (including two independents). Democrat Mark Begich narrowly defeated Sen. Ted Stevens (in photo), who had been convicted of seven felonies for failing to report gifts. Two other Senate races are still undecided. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., leads Al Franken by only 206 votes out of 2.9 million ballots cast, and Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., is facing a runoff race Dec. 2 against Jim Martin.
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Funny what happens when the votes are actually counted.
Franken will probably win in Minnesota as well. The recount began just minutes ago.
http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2008/11/19/ga-senate-chambliss-4/
Latest polling from Georgia; Sen. Chambliss up 4%.
It will be interesting to see the final outcome in MN; a number of my professional colleagues find continued employment there….
Stevens should have been removed from the ballot the moment he was convicted. There are enough crooks in DC, we don’t need more…especially convicted ones.
I’ll take MN and concede GA: 59 is good enough. Particularly given the fact that, having seen Chris Shays go down as the last Northeast House Republican standing, Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins have to be ready to deal on the big issues coming down the pike, notably health care and the energy economy. Add those two and it doesn’t matter WHAT Ben Nelson does to sandbag president Obama’s agenda.
avtolle,
Nice gift for understatement: “a number of my professional colleagues find continued employment there…” Though it isn’t clear whether you mean with regard to the recount or to Norm Coleman’s blossoming legal troubles.
Will the repub delegates show up there rioting and protesting and interrupting the recount? Or, do they just do that on presidential elections, what is the protocol?
CF2K: both.
Phantom, hard to say. From media reports so far, it appears that there are many volunteers from both parties watching the process, with the legal hired guns waiting in the wings. No reports of protests, civil unrest, etc, received to this moment.
Clinton’s campaigning for dem in the Senate race in Georgia. Think Clinton carries a lot of clout there. Did Mccain win Georgia?
Franken is funny and intelligent (as indicated by the quality of his jokes), would be funny to have him in the Senate.
Rush might even get the idea that he could get elected or make a run for something (be good to get him off the air and not inciting division and hatred).
McCain did carry Georgia but by a much narrower margin than most Republican candidates. It’s still a Republican state!
My heart would not be broken if Chambliss loses after the way he campaigned against Max Cleland, a triple amputee from the Nam war. If you google Cleland & Chambliss at the same time, it can lead you to a campaign ad the Republicans ran against Cleland when Chambliss beat him for the senate seat.
I agree janeeyre. As a native Georgian I would dearly love to see Chambliss go down. I’d rather claim brownback as my own than Chambliss – at least Brownback has some integrity. Chambliss is simple a pile of scum.
If I could have chosen just one of these three to win it would have been Georgia. Even Stevens has more integrity than Chambliss.
I feel good about Minnesota.
Obama needs to get down to Georgia to support Martin.
I agree BlueJay. I think an Obama-Clinton team could shake things up there. I know a lot of ‘old-line’ Democrats who like Clinton but who are still uneasy about Obama. Then in other areas it is the other way around. Like I said, as a native Georgian I’d love to see Chambliss out of there.
I agree that chambliss needs to roast in hell for what he did to Cleland.
But I doubt democrats will pick up georgia. They wont want to give democrats seat number fifty nine. I refuse to call LIEberman one of them. He may caucus with the democrats, but he sure as hell isnt one of them.
It’s FRANKEN I really want to see win!!!!!
Coleman needs to take his place in the dustbin of history.
I wonder, did Sarah Palin vote for Ted Stevens? And doesn’t it say something that so many Alaskans voted for a convicted felon?
No wonder they still like Sarah Palin.
Jane,
According to Harry Golden, the tradition in the deep south was to elect amputees to political office on the grounds that if they absconded with state funds, they’d be easy to catch. If Chambliss opposed an amputee in Ga., he isn’t a traditional southerner!
I have only read at least in part two books written by authors with a “openly liberal biases” “Bush world” and “lying, liars and the lies they tell”. Of the two it was Franken’s that I enjoyed and was insightful, though both ended up with my biggest complain about how Liberals tend to convey information. They end up trying to be entertaining and exaggerate and blow thing out of their true extent. Till finally the real message get lost in the embellishment. I managed to get through more of Franken’s book before he fell victim to this trend. But have never finished it as become lost and meandering, Dowel’s book ended up being left out in the rain and is somewhere drying off?
We’ll see how popular Palin is after a year or two of reasonably priced oil. She was as much a creature of the oil boom as Chavez or Putin.
I still remember Al Franken’s book – Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Liar. Isn’t life funny? Al Franken may soon be Senator Franken and Rush Limbaugh is still shoveling the same old crap he’s been shoveling since the 90’s.
I’m sure Rush supporters will try to highlight the fact that Rush is making millions but one that is still true – money cannot buy class!
But remember beber – Sarah Palin has been watching Putin from her front porch, so she’s an expert on those pesky old Russians.
But, you make a good point. I wonder how well liked she will be in the next few years. Especially if she goes all ‘Hollywood’ on them.
Writerdog, you should read Thomas Frank. He does NOT lose the battle to overwrought humor.
In fact, you’ll be crying at the end of his writings because he is so dead on correct about what cons have done to this country.
I agree is doesn’t say much for the voters of Alaska that a convicted felon only lost by a few thousand votes, and he still gets his pension
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