Stevens loses in Alaska
Good. I would have preferred he won and than immediately resigned so at least a Republican would have been appointed, but the guy deserved to lose. The corrupt US Senator for the last 280 years, not at all disappointed to see him go.
On the day Sen. Ted Stevens turned 85 years old, the Alaska Republican discovered his constituents had turned him from office.
With 2,500 overseas ballots remaining to be counted on Wednesday, Sen. Stevens learned late Tuesday that his Democratic opponent, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, had an insurmountable 3,724-vote lead across the state.
The GOP was going to boot him anyway (or at least I hope they would have). It was going to make for some interesting drama to see who was going to take over for the GOP from Alaska if he had won. Was it going to be Senator Sarah Palin? We won’t know.
Sen. Stevens’s defeat sends a mixed message to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the defeated Republican candidate for vice president. Prior to the election, both Gov. Palin and presidential candidate John McCain urged Sen. Stevens to resign.
Although Gov. Palin has cultivated an image as a Republican determined to root out corruption—especially by members of her own party in her own state—voters may have supported Sen. Stevens this year to demonstrate they were repudiating critics of Gov. Palin, whom many Alaskans believe was mistreated by the national media.
Harry Reid is getting closer to his veto proof majority.
