“Very good news.”
This is a lot more absentee ballots than I thought, or read, were outstanding. Why would it be hard to count them if they’re put through counting machines (not this write-in rubbish?) Hmmm...wonder if they’ve been holding them back in the hopes that sen. write-in could catch up with Joe (with all the psych. impact of that for the media darlings...)
Just count the real votes.
I know it is a sore spot, and I’m very disappointed as well, but Joe Miller did not win enough Alaskan votes to be the next Senator. I blame the voters. Ignoring reality does not change the balance. Alaska is not as conservative as we would like to believe, nor is Colorado or Nevada for that matter. Neither was Virginia, North Carolina, nor Indiana in 2008. Fortunately most of the rest of the country is still relatively, or moderately, conservative. If the right candidates run they can win. We have to do better than Joe Miller, Ken Buck, and Sharron Angle. They represent our values but they lose elections. We need winning candidates. Note that I excluded Christine O’Donnell from the list because it is arguable whether Delaware could elect any conservative in our lifetime. That is certainly not true of Alaska, Colorado, or Nevada. We fumbled those seats away.