I still don’t understand how absentee ballots can favor the ‘Rat in Alaska. They’re usually cast by military, elderly, and folks traveling out of state, aren’t they? What does Palin have to say about this, if anything?
I haven’t heard anything lately, but I imagine she has to walk a pretty fine line of wanting the GOP to win the seat and hoping for Stevens to either resign or get kicked out by the Senate. Then she can nominate a replacement.
Under normal conditions, those voters would tend to go GOP. But, those are also the groups of people who would be turned off by Stevens legal and ethical problems. I don't see anything amiss here.