http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27398089/

Stevens found guilty of corruption. I hope this has some backlash on the Republicans in the election. Definitely doesn't stop w/ this guy.

and just breaking I heard that the ATF has intervened on skinheads in TN and AR in an assassination plot on Obama. This is insane.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ijDA ... wD94323R01

Extremely breaking atm. Details coming.

That guy is a fuckwad.

Maybe the dems could elect someone in Stevens' spot running on a platform to be the anti-Stevens... only to turn out to be just like him! Kind of like Mahoney. heh

2 dollars says he still wins his seat.

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I'll take that bet.

I dunno, Marion Barry ring a bell?

I'd definitely take that bet. Stevens is finished.

Yeah. Convicted felon = no seat. He can't continue his campaign as a convicted felon.

Look at this fuckin champ:



Looks like a cancer patient with makup. Fucking faggot. I wish he would have killed himself instead.

Didn't the article state otherwise?

I'm saying he "can't" in terms of being a viable candidate. There is too much political fallout. He'll lose endorsements and votes. There is nothing forcing him out, as the article said. I'm just saying, being a convicted felon weighs heavily against the goal of his.

yes, it did Neesha, but that would have required Sky to read and understand the whole article

not just skim it over and get what he wants to interpet out of it

I read it, but you're misinterpreting what I said. I just meant that the guy would have a hard time winning the seat as a convicted felon. Not that he was required to drop out of the race. You dolts fail to understand that the revelation of him having to drop out of the race would have been just as big of a bombshell and no doubt headline news. Retard.

I think you fail to grasp the status that Sen. Stevens has in AK, I was stationed there for 4 years

at Elemendorf AFB, and Ted is REVERED in that state , do I think he will win the election, no

could he win the election YES , very easily, but then I think Congress would remove him thru their rule set.

I think you're all underestimating the sheer level of strange that exists in Alaska. Fuckers are weird up there.

I think that Sen. Stevens will win his seat in Alaska, if only by a small bit.

Alaska Senate Race:Begich 47.4% | Stevens 46.0%

That's polling done before his conviction. I'll bet you $20 bucks Stevens is out Snoozle.

If any ultraconservative assassins really want to watch on TV while we swear in President Joe Biden, take your best shot.

I think you guys are underestimating how stupid Alaskans are.*







(*joking)

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That's very difficult to do after the past couple of months. Their leader is a goddamn alien.

It's no joke on the intellect of Alaskans, but then again they live under the constant threat of being eaten by a bear. That wears on a person. lol

Indeed! And the bear's name is Mother Russia.

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Putin Ursa

So. heh. 37% reporting and Stevens is winning.

Fuckers are strange.

yup

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I really can't believe they re-elected him. Maybe they don't understand that he'll be kicked out?

I'm glad Snoozle didn't take my bet.

It's ok Us richers don't need to win money from the likes of you liberal hippies.

He'll get kicked out and then the Republican Gov, hmm wonder who is the Republican Gov of Alaska

can/will appt a temporary senator to fill that spot, until a special election can be held to fill the seat.

wonder if that seat in the Senate will stay Red ??

I'm sure that a lot of Republican Alaskans would rather have their felon/Senator's replacement appointed by Gov Palin than elect a Democrat.

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Alaska votes 65% or so Republican, so I'd feel pretty confident

that ole Ted was told/planned to stay in the race all along regardless of the trial outcome

for exactly this reason.

heh, guess I lost that bet

I'm pretty sure they have a special election for shit like that up there. The Gov. doesn't have shit to say other than an interim senator while the election happens.

You are correct:

States do it different ways I guess. Still, they wouldn't have been able to replace Stevens on yesterday's ballot due to time contrainsts. So, from an Alaskan Republican perspective, it's probably better to force a resignation and a special election with a chance of a different Republican winning, than to cede the election outright to Begich.

From a pure partisanship perspective, that seems like a logical course of action.

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Begich Pulls Ahead of Stevens In Alaska Vote Count:

Sorry I haven't been around for this one, but I've been busy fighting with conspiracy-theorists. How could you say an election is "stolen" when 1/3 of the votes weren't yet counted?

Anyway, here's the latest from yesterday's vote (cut-and-pasted from the blog and a hot item on BuzzFlash today):



There are about 25,000 votes yet to count between Anchorage and Juneau. As Begich is mayor of Anchorage and "questioned ballots" ("provisional" to some of you) generally break Dem, it's a good bet that he'll pull much farther ahead from the Anchorage vote. Juneau early votes broke for Mark by 63% so that's also a good bet.

However, no one is counting any chickens...especially not the campaign.

I was at the Begich office and the Division of Elections in Anch for the count this past week and took pictures (story on the blog, of course). I'll be back there on Tuesday.

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Good lord, a close call election in Alaska? I'll ask you how it turned out in January when all the votes are counted.

Much <3 to Alaska, though. Great state, great peoples.

[quote]"He symbolizes Alaska's legitimacy, that Alaska is a player on the national stage as much as anybody else," University of Alaska Anchorage history professor Steve Haycox said.[/qoute]

Alaska's legitimacy as a corrupt politician. Lol.

Fuck I messed up that quote.

Rejoice and be glad!

Ted Stevens' 85th birthday present? RETIREMENT! Begich has untouchable lead--3,724!

From Bethany Lesser at the Begich Campaign:



My Alaskan neighbors have redeemed themselves!

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OOPS SORRY we screwed your re-election

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29988577

Not saying he perhaps didn't commit the crime but sure looks like Dems and prosecutors screwed the pooch here

It was a Democrat that set aside the verdict, and a Republican prosecutor that convicted him....

He's still a corrupt fuck. It's just that the prosecutor was more of a corrupt fuck.

I'd be fascinated to learn how exactly "Dems screwed the pooch."

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perhaps my old terminology is wrong, however, he was a beloved figure in his state, and the democratic campaign waged war on him over his corruption trial and conviction, and yet still only won by 3700 votes or so.

I'm saying that had any sort of vindication of this level come out before the election, I'd be willing to wager that Stevens would have won re-election.

Now, like I stated, I'm not saying that this dismissal of judgement actually vindicates him in my mind completely, good chance he is probably guilty of some part of this crime if not all, but it still puts a taint is some way on the election process at least to me.

It was George W. Bush's Justice Department who indicted and convicted Senator Stevens.

I don't see how there's any shred of a taint on the election process. Bush appointees ran the case from start to finish. No one is suggesting that Steven's isn't corrupt, just that the prosecution was structurally flawed.

If anything, it just spreads the taint of the Bush DoJ around even further.

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