Posted on 11/09/2010 4:58:45 PM PST by TitansAFC
As of 3:06 p.m. Alaska time:
Miller has netted 914 votes over "Write-ins" after 8,000+ of the roughyl 30,000 absentee/military votes have been counted.
The count now has Joe Miller trailing "Write-ins" in the overall count by 12,525 votes.
Remaining ballots are from both places Miller is expected to do well AND places Murkowski is expected to do well.
lol!
The conclusions that people just leap to around here are simply amazing sometimes. Just enter the name 'Palin' into a discussion, and otherwise good rational people turn into zombies of sorts. Can she do no wrong? Has she EVER done anything wrong in your opinion? I've been around 0bama supporters who act similar whenever you say anything about him, even SLIGHTLY negative.
Have the Miliatry votes been counted and is Lizza going to challenge them over some kind of technicality?
I’ll take this thread on it’s own, when you post as you are on this thread, and make it clear that you are reveling in a Miller defeat to the establishment candidate Murkowski, then that is how it will be taken.
You are as you post.
The write in ballots marked Miller they should go in the Miller column. The Lt. Governor said they will not count them. Huh?
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if she did. The military are the first thrown under the bus whenever the power of a politician is in jeopardy.
There's no excuse at all for what we do to our military when it comes to voting. We could easily setup a system where each service member is given a PIN number, or some other unique identifier and allow them to vote online. Such a system would probably even cost less than how it is being handled today, and there would be little potential for fraud if done properly.
Update, 4:07 p.m.:
There’s a new batch of statewide numbers. The state now reports having counted over 14,000 absentee and early ballots today.
Miller has gained a little bit of ground since the last absentee count. He now has 12,218 fewer votes than the write-in ballots.
That means he’s picked up 1,221 votes so far in today’s count.
There should be around 8,000 more absentees left to count today if the Division of Elections sticks to its original plan of counting about 22,000 of the absentee/early votes today.
There were a total of more than 30,000 of such ballots received by the state. More absentee counts will be held next week.
how can overtake Cow getting only that many votes?...he needed to take a vast majority of absenttes..to the tune 2/3 of the votes and then still hope he has a few of the write ins...
“Not enough of a gain after 30%+ counted. Still, we wait and hope for the best.....”
Maybe but then there are the 30,000.00 absentee ballots..........military maybe...
yes...he needs 75% of those absentees and he’s not getting them....I don’t how plainer it could be...
I can't believe after all the hyping about the military ballots that it has come to this..hardly a blip...
Yabut, I thought there were a hundred different "write-in" splitting that vote.
Hate to burst your bubble but you don’t know how many of the writeins are a) valid and b) if valid, were cast fr Murkowski.
I know how happy you would both be to see Miller defeated because you think it would derail Palin.
It won’t.
Bad news. With a 6% difference to make up, that won’t be enough of a trend.
why is that stupid?
Hey doufous, I want Miller to win as much as anyone else. It’s not my problem that math is not your strong point.
but he needed a huge uptick in these absentees and he's not getting it....
if with the absenttees counted, and he manages to get 3000 more votes than Cow, he still needs at least 10,000 write ins to go his way or a combination for Cow not getting them,the rat getting them or them being disqualified...
I don't understand this jubilation over Joe getting a head by 900 votes with almost the third of the absentee gone thru...period.
but he needed a huge uptick in these absentees and he's not getting it....
if with the absenttees counted, and he manages to get 3000 more votes than Cow, he still needs at least 10,000 write ins to go his way or a combination for Cow not getting them,the rat getting them or them being disqualified...
I don't understand this jubilation over Joe getting a head by 900 votes with almost the third of the absentee gone thru...period.
LLS
For the same reason that saying so many of DeMint’s chosen candidates lost - including in his home state of SC (Barrett) and region (Raese)- is somehow proof he can’t convince enough people of his ideas to win a national backing (Buck lost, DeVore lost, Barrett lost, O’Donnell lost, Angle lost, Romney lost in 2008, Rossi lost, Lamaontagne lost, etc.)
Clearly, in spite of the many losses, DeMint’s stock is going up as a whole. Same with Palin.
One loss in Alaska to someone campaigning on bringing home pork (not to a Democrat, mind you) after many victories is hardly a body blow.
Of course, I suspect that yet another victory would have meant nothing to you, anyway........
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