Posted on 11/08/2014 12:39:41 PM PST by Kaslin
Alaska Democratic Senator Mark Begich is counting on votes that are not yet counted in the Last Frontier’s Senate race. One hundred percent of the precincts are in and Begich’s GOP challenger Dan Sullivan is currently in the lead by 8,000 votes. But, the incumbent Democrat is insisting that more rural votes could change the outcome.
ABC News has the specifics:
According to Gail Fenumiai, the director of the Alaska Division of Elections, there are 23,271 early and absentee ballots deemed eligible for counting. These are already received and reviewed as eligible. They sent out another 12,541 absentee ballots and if postmarked by November 4th, ballots can arrive legally 15 days after the election and still be properly counted. Of course, they have no idea how many of those will be returned.
Because of these yet-to-be-tallied votes, Begich's campaign manager Susanne Fleek-Green said her boss is in it for the long haul:
She said Begich would make a statement on the race only after “counts arrive from the seventy outstanding villages and when the number of outstanding absentee and questioned ballots is clear.”
Sullivan’s campaign, however, is claiming that Begich is “clinging to votes that don’t exist.” Several news outlets appear to agree with them. The Alaska Dispatch News, for instance, says Begich faces “daunting math” to overcome the deficit and the Alaska Public Radio Network asserted the incumbent’s decision to stay in the race is based on an “implausible hypothetical resurgence.”
Nevertheless, Begich doesn’t seem to be backing down. This race may not be called for weeks.
She would if the democrat was running against someone she had a grudge with. That's what she did in the governor's race. Threw a hissy fit because Parnell made the correct call to get rid of her ACES.
“For Begich to win this, the fraud would be so obvious it would be overturned.”
That is so, so true, and the state hasn’t had a Democrat Governor in a while. Begich just doesn’t want to let go of the power and prestige. He would have to win at least 60% of the uncounted votes to win and even the MSM is skeptical.
Nick is a complete fool!
Have your ever read his book: “Angels Don’t Play This Haarp?”
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Democrats just keep counting until they magically win. Even more strange is voting to re-elect those who cheated their way into office as Franken did. It tells you a lot about the caliber of the voters of a state.
Honestly, Nick ain't a bad guy at all. He'll never run for any office. He's too busy with his family, making money, and pondering futuristic ideas. No offense, here in Alaska; people are more open to leaders that have new directions for the future; same as they like the freedom that permeates the entire Country up here.
“Begich” sounds like “baggage” - precisely the stuff voters got rid of this last time around. Let’s get this count over with (only a miracle saves him), ditch the baggage and start fresh...
Since Obama and his fraud machine arrived.
Sadly Alaska apparently elected the defacto rat as Governor last week. Thanks to whathername losing her mind.
Gator I tell ya, I am completely disgusted with the freepers than supported Walker. Walker was endorsed by the democrats, his running mate is a democrat and was ILLEGALLY put on the ticket (so yes Palin did endorse a democrat, for LT Governor, a democrat who broke the law to run with Walker, and make no mistake, the ex-RINO Walker is a defacto democrat).
Either the dems did the right thing or Palin did the wrong thing, 1 woman was wrong or a whole party full of socialist swine was right. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm God what an easy call!
Add to that her absurd endorsement of Joe Miller (who would have badly lost to Begich) and Palin’s Alaska endorsements are really stinky this year.
Just a follow up, Sullivan won by about 8800 votes. Final is 119,000 vs 111,000, suggesting that the absentee votes fell almost exactly in the same proportion as the regular votes. Which is what “should have” happened statistically speaking. It was 110,000 to 102,000 at the time of this article, so the remaining votes split almost exactly 50-50 (9000 each). Its just incredibly unlikely that the absentee vote would break hard (70%) one way or the other unless it was from a very focused locale.
Thanks. I had thought most of the remaining votes were from remote Eskimo and Indian majority locales.
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