Well after a long day of wringing my hands together and waiting for the results to filter out from the Division of Election here are the last numbers as of November 12, 2008.
Mark Begich has 132196 votes to Ted Stevens 131382 votes.
Putting him ahead by 814 votes. I am pretty confident that as the rest of the votes are counted Begich will only increase his lead.
So it looks like Mark Begich will be Alaska's next Senator! And that is wonderful news!
In the not such great news category, here are the numbers in the Congressional race.
Don Young has 140269 votes to Ethan Berkowitz's 125184 votes.
Which means that Young is still in the lead with 15,985.
There are still thousands of votes left to be counted, but we will not have those results until Monday. I will keep a good thought until then.
And no matter what happens it is very clear that it is time for Alaska to take a serious look at how it conducts its elections. I do believe that there will be changes in the near future.
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