Murkowski Still Trailing Challenger in Absentee Ballot Count

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Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska remained more than 1,400 votes behind her Tea Party-backed primary challenger as officials counted absentee ballots.

Murkowski is 1,469 votes behind lawyer Joe Miller, according to updated figures released today by the Alaska Division of Elections in a count that won’t be completed before next week. Last week, Miller, a Gulf War Army veteran endorsed by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, had a 1,668-vote lead out of more than 92,000 ballots cast in the Aug. 24 primary.

The tally includes almost 11,000 additional votes and is being updated as the counting continues. Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai had said officials today would count more than 15,000 absentee, early and questioned ballots. Earlier today, Murkowski had narrowed the gap to as few as 1,210 votes.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-31/murkowski-still-trailing-challenger-in-absentee-ballot-count.html


A Dem has a decent shot of winning Alaska, again. Thank you Sarah Palin! Keep up the good work!

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1. K/R

! :D

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2. According to Swing State Project, she can't make up the deficit

She's supposed to be holding press conference, conceding perhaps?

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3. Wow, love it

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4. Recount!

:yoiks:

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5. They will try to Bush v. Gore him for sure.

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6. She's speaking now and is just about conceding

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7. :( Hoped that they would drag it out till late October. nt

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8. wha'd she say?

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9. She thanked her constituents and her staff

And talked about finishing up the rest of the year. She did not mention Miller once, so I don't think she'll be endorsing him.