Alaska counting of absentee ballots begins - Go Miller!! [Murkowski just conceded.]

Alaska Politics Blog - Anchorage Daily News ^ | August 31, 2010 | Alaska_Politics

[Roccus]

PING to Post #51

[Drango]

Yes. Ive called several times and the phone just rang and rang. Every once in awhile a lady will answer and act stupid.

Well they call me almost on a monthly basis. I'll give the poor caller an earful next time...

[DefeatCorruption]

Is this gonna be another Al Franken or whatever the hell his name is.

[Deb]

Aren’t the military votes in with the other absentees? Geez, the term will be over.

[onyx]

SARAH PALIN PING LIST "ping" PLUS INTERESTED OTHERS

LIVE THREAD - BALLOT COUNT UNDERWAY IN ALASKA

[onyx]

No, Joe Miller is going to officially win, (again).

[Keith in Iowa]

>>> Cheating is a big exxagerated issue on this forum.

Were it not for votes of felons in Minnesota, Senator Al Franken would be a joke in someone’s mind, not the joke it is in reality.

[Tribune7]

How many total Pub ballots finally came in?

[wk4bush2004]

“Joe Miller is going to officially win, (again).”

Oh, of course he is. What is so astounding is that the media keeps trumpeting the “gains” in votes by Murkowski.

When the media goes to great lengths to cover and save a Republican......erm, I mean, “RINO,” that says something....

[CedarDave]

That makes a total of 5,286 ballots that have been counted and reported so far today.

[onyx]

Stay updated here too with 'the other McCain.'

[CedarDave]

Now a live thread. Thanks guys and/or gals!

[onyx]

You'll also like this LINK . I appreciate, good information, common sense and cool heads.

[truthfreedom]

Miltary votes are in Districts 18, 12, 10.

4 Military Bases, 2 in 18.

See this thread for more on the military bases.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2580530/posts

I looked at the data pretty closely and Miller could pick up a lot of votes from those bases. Almost no one voted at the military bases on election day.

However, people rarely vote there at all, either on election day or absentee, except Presidential.

Less than 5% turnout on election day.

The author of the article assumed that low turnout on election day means a lot of absentee.

That wasn’t the case in the 2006 Rep Primary. Palin didn’t get huge number of absentee votes from the bases that year.

However, Miller did beat Murk on the bases on election day around 3 to 1.

Miller will definitely pick up votes. How many, who knows?

[Drango]

5,286 or about a third of the absentee ballots. Fairbanks will report in the next 20 min and that *may* give Miller an unsurmountable lead.

[Deb]

Thanks, Boopsie.

[gov_bean_ counter]

MSM wants to be able to charaterize this as a defeat for Palin. That is the extent of their interest.

[Minus_The_Bear]

Wow, so you think it’s cool for Murkowski’s people to access Dept. of Election computers?

[COBOL2Java]

Murkowski seen here threatening the GOP if she loses...

[Deb]

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