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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Nov 13, 2008 12:43am |
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| News Date | Thursday, November 13, 2008 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich (D) on Wednesday jumped ahead of Ted Stevens in the cliffhanger race for an Alaska Senate seat.
At the end of a day of counting early and absentee ballots, Begich jumped ahead by 814 votes, maintaining a 0.39 percent lead over Stevens, a political icon in the state who last month was convicted of felonies for failing to publicly disclose gifts he received from an oil contractor. Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, had led by a few thousand votes heading into Wednesday.
The race is still far from being decided, with thousands of uncounted ballots still looming. At the beginning of the week, 90,635 ballots still had to be counted, and state officials set a goal of counting nearly 60,000 ballots on Wednesday. If the margin between the two candidates is less than 0.5 percent, the state would conduct a recount if one is requested. The state would have 10 days to complete the recount. |
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