"It's looking bad for Lisa Murkowski.
The latest count of absentees increased Miller's lead to 1,469 votes. Fairbanks probably helped Miller, although the votes were also from Southeast Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula.
The Murkowski campaign was really counting on a big boost from Southeast.
It didn't happen.
The latest batch was a count of 2,760 votes. It brings the total counted today to about 15,700 votes. Still awaiting some more Kenai absentee votes today."
Whoops. In my Miller-Time excitement I missed where this was already posted.
And additionally:
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/152974
“The Division of Elections will has an additional roughly 9,000 votes to process. Some will be disqualified and more absentees could come in so the numbers aren’t firm. It’s also not clear how many are for the Republican primary race and how many are Democratic. Most will be counted on Friday with a final count of largely overseas absentees on Sept. 8.
Today was the biggest chunk of votes. Murkowski has cut Miller’s lead from 1,668 votes to 1,469 today. That’s not nearly what the Murkowski campaign had hoped for.”
Woohoo - barely made a dent from her stronger areas and with 2/3 of the votes now counted! Miller should clean up even more with the military votes to be counted later. I think LM is DONE.