Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made lemonade out of lemons today by auctioning off on the Internet the fancy wardrobe purchased for her failed vice-presidential run, and raking in more than a million dollars — which she immediately donated to the Needy Governors’ Winter Clothing Fund.
The feisty four-eyed political phenomenon More…
The U.S. Senate race in Alaska is still too close to call. Sen. Ted Stevens (R), just convicted of seven bribery-related felony counts, is up by 3,257 votes with 60,000 early votes and absentee votes still to be counted. Another 16,000 “questionable ballots” need to be examined.
Who will win? More…
Today I wrote about the possible Stevens effect — voters tell pollsters they’d never vote for a convicted felon and then turn around and do so in the voting booth.
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who was convicted in Washington last month on seven felony counts of failing to disclose More…
Move over “Bradley effect,” this was the year of a different polling phenomenon — the “Stevens effect.”
Down in the polls last week by 22 points, Alaska’s Sen. Ted Stevens now leads by 3,500 votes with 40,000 absentee ballots still to be counted.
In the final days of the Senate More…
With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) leads his Democratic challenger, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, by more than 3,000 votes.
Apparently, in Alaska, a conviction on seven felony corruption charges less than two weeks before an election does not necessarily More…
TPM Election Central caught an interview with Gov. Sarah Palin as she exited her polling station in Wasilla, Alaska.
Who did she vote for in today’s U.S. Senate race?
Sen. Ted Stevens, who was found guilty Monday on seven felony charges related to his failure to disclose gifts from an oil services firm, told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that he has not been convicted of a crime.
The longtime senator, who is up for reelection Tuesday, has been More…
Who would vote for a convicted felon to serve in the U.S. Senate?
Right now, about 42 percent of Alaskans say they would.
The day after a Washington jury found the Senate’s longest-serving Republican, Ted Stevens, guilty of failing to disclose $250,000 in gifts from an oil services firm, Rasmussen More…
This just in from my colleague Laura McGann, who is traveling with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
A day after Sen. John McCain called for the resignation of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who was convicted yesterday on seven felony corruption charges, Palin said Stevens should step down. Here is Palin’s statement More…
Sen. Barack Obama is calling on Ted Stevens, his convicted Senate colleague, to step down. The Obama campaign just released this statement from the Democratic presidential nominee:
Yesterday’s ruling wasn’t just a verdict on Sen. Stevens — but on the broken politics that has infected Washington for decades. It’s time
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