The Democrats are now at 58 seats, with the possibility of getting two more. The AP has called the race for Mark Begich in Alaska.
Convicted Sen. Ted Stevens lost his re-election bid to Democrat Mark Begich after the last large batch of votes was counted Tuesday.
The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday’s count.
That’s an insurmountable lead with only about 2,500 overseas ballots left to be counted.
Ted Stevens represented everything that was wrong with politics in Washington, as he steered millions of pork dollars back to Alaska. Oh, and he was also a convicted felon. It’s a disgrace that the race ws even this close, but at least he won’t be returning to the Senate. Also, we won’t have to face the potential drama of Sarah Palin appointing herself to this seat in the event that Stevens won and then was removed from the Senate.
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Tags: Alaska Senator, Begich defeats Stevens, Dems hit 58 seats, Mark Begich, Ted Stevens
Don’t look now but Al Franken might be the next comeback kid.
There are 24,000 ballets that need to be looked at, that registered votes in other contests but not in the Franken race. In Minnesota, there is a fairly low threshold to determine if intent was there to vote for someone so potentially there are thousands more votes in that election to be studied one by one and Franken might very well win.
59….
George looks a bit tougher, but if we can get Franken, that gives us 59 plus the turncoat Liebermann will probably be happy to change teams one more time on many key issues for the left.
So a veto proof majority, case by case, might just be possible.
filibuster proof majority that is…
I am still fixated on old George Bush….
Thank God Stevens lost. Re-electing a convicted felon would’ve been a travesty. Don’t we have enough crooks in the US government as is?
I think Franken is going to pull it out