Nobody knows yet. At this posting, Mark Begich leads our felonious Ted Stevens by 824 votes (it was 814, but while on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show, the wunderkind Mayor of Anchorage Mark announced another 10 votes from an Alaskan rural community). If this trend holds - and considering the upside-downess of predictors in Alaska this election year, who knows - Mark Begich could beat Ted Stevens by enough(.5%)that an automatic recount will not occur.
Alas, the outlook for the erstwhile Democratic U.S. House of Representatives prospect Ethan Berkowitz is more problematic: Berkowitz has eaten into Don Young's lead by 2000 votes. That still leaves Ethan 15,000 votes behind. In the patois off sports playoff, Berkowitz has not been "mathematically eliminated," but with only 40+ thousand votes left to count, it is unlikely he'll pull it off. More's the pity, since Ethan was expected to put Alaska's biannual buffoon into retirement by 8% points, or so said our pollsters.
More counting Friday and next week.
Q: Current and expat Political junkies of Alaska - Does it get much better than this?
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