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Subscribe to RSSAccording to Gail Fenumiai, director of Alaska's Division of Elections, counting of the "write-in" ballots will start on Wednesday, Nov. 10 at 9:00 am (Alaska time) in Juneau. The first day of counting will conclude around 5:00 pm local. At that point they will evaluate how far they've gotten and adjust hours accordingly.
They will be working on Veteran's Day and the weekend.
There will be 15 counting teams of two; each candidate and party is allowed one observer per team.
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So does Joe Miller, the out of wedlock love child of Ahmadinejad, think he should be declared the winner even though he didn't get the most votes? Like father, like son!
What a clever comment! You must have spent several hours piecing the words together. Scary that you may be old enough to vote on any issue.
You have to admit, though..."Mama Grizzly" and the Tea Party's failure to win decisively (and Miller may not have even won at all) is pretty damn funny!
Da Noid: considering that the TP is an extremely young political group, they did exceptionally well across the nation. Whether one likes or dislikes the TP, they had remarkable success with their candidates. As an example, I can refer you to the Green Party. Greenies have been around for a long time yet garner little if any political offices. The TP may be without a politcal platform, but they have grown through adolescence quickly. In my opinion, if they don't destroy themselves by factionalism, they will be even stronger in 2012. Both the Dems and the GOP can either reconsile their differences or play the blame game. The TPers can maintain their status quo and note that they did not have the political clout in the WH or Congress BUT will continue to add to their rank and file AND nominate additional TP candidates. Again, in my opinion, the TP is in the best possible position, they will not be blamed for any failures by either the Dems or the Repubs (the old partisan blame game that is labelled Dem vs GOP only!) and can claim success(es) when the agenda veers in their favor. This should be fun to watch for the next several years.
The Tea Party is not a third political party, not yet anyway. It is part of the republican party, nobody ran as a third party candidate, they knocked republicans out of primaries then ran as a republican, and took all the republican support they could get. Right now they are a wholly owned subsidiary of the republican party. You are correct they have no political platform of their own and will operate as a faction within the republican party. Right now for better or worse the Tea party and the republican party belong to each other.
A pleasant fiction...but remember that the Tea Party IS the Republicans. Please, stop referring to the Tea Party as if it were a separate and unique political party from the Republicans. Every single Tea Party candidate ran with an "R" next to their name. The reason I know this is I'm in New York and Carl Paladino ran with the Tea Party's endorsement but he did not appear on the ballot with "TP" next to his name.
The factionalism is coming...Jim DeMint vs. Mitch McConnell...plus senators who knows who the Tea Party may be after in 2012 and 2014...Olympia Snowe, Dick Lugar, Bob Corker, Orrin Hatch, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham...all could be vulnerable to Tea Party candidates in upcoming primaries.
Da Noid...Yes, the TP used the republican party to gain access....no, they are not a 'Political Party'. I believe what you have omitted is the number of conservative Independents who voted for the TP backed candidate. Although it is commonly assumed that the Dems or the Repubs have the majorities within the voting segments, it is the Independents who control the elections. The Indies can tilt an election either way...in this case (2010) a majority of the Indies went with the TP backed candidate (not in ALL cases, but their vote was instrumental in a large percentage of the elections). As I stated in a previous text, the coming 2 years will be interesting and factionalism may raise its ugly head.
Most are the Christian right from the last 30 years. The GOP sold their collective souls to them back 30 years ago. I attribute nothing to that movement other than them jumping on the bandwagon. Most voted republican, most are, and the independents did not side with the TEA party, they wanted to throw the bums out. The fringe element supported by the "TEA party" lost for good reason in the general as expected. So really what did they gain? Nothing that can be substantiated other than pushing their own "republican" party further in that direction.
Mama Grizzly is fixing to loose one of her cubs... Especially when the cub gets beat by a write-in candidate... Kinda bad for the ego when it is your home state....
Sarah baby will somehow twist and turn that fact until it's to her favor,,,even if it's without a single truth or factual by any sense of the word.
Bill... I would not call the tea party a remarkable success. The majority of candidates they backed were going to win whether or not they had backing from the tea party. All in all I would say the tea party legitimately helped maybe 3 or 4 candidates win a race they would not have won. On top of that the tea party fueled their campaign with anger, hatred and deceit. They were hardly reputable in their actions and behavior.
There are several groups emerging right now to combat the tea party, one in particular called the Progressive Intellectual Party. The tea party accomplished what they accomplished by toting around rude signs and creating havoc at town hall meetings, this sort of behavior and gain of populace will not last very long. A good portion of the tea party candidates will have to prove that they can work with true substance to improve conditions for the U.S. at this point lowering taxes and decreasing governmental spending will only create more poverty for the U.S. and increase the deficit by even larger numbers. The problem with the tea party is that they do not have a cohesive plan to make their rumblings work. Those who voted for them will find they've been duped.
Henry Hall...we can disagree on the significance of the success ratio. I do not foresee any moderation in the fervor of the supporters of the TP. I do believe that both Dems & Repubs underestimated the zeal of the the TP supporters on the 2010 campaign. I rest on my belief that the TP candidates (elected officials) are in an excellent position in both the House and the Senate...no matter which way a bill goes (Dem - Repub) the TP member can gain credibility with TP supporters by either becoming extremely vocal in its (Bill) support or remain silent and acquiesce to the majority. The TP Senate/House member can play to their supporters by either denouncing the Dems or being critical of the Repubs. Good way to galvanize the troops.
Bill, you are right in some of that. In my view the party purists, the social conservatives have a banner now. They are the same but now have a name. The more they pull in the direction of that fringe, the more they will be put back where they were, "the Christian Nation, evangelicals" who hijacked the GOP.
Henry .. "The problem with the tea party is that they do not have a cohesive plan to make their rumblings work." Correct, but on a broader sense the Republican leadership have only offered the solution of replacing President Obama and eliminating the laws past the last couple of years. Perhaps it is time the Republicans offer solutions to America's problems, that includes putting people to work. And to do that, there will have to be a lot of bipartisan support, which at the moment sound more like the rumblings of war instead of a hand shake.
Well, well, well! mama Grizzly can't pull a win in her state.
She will have to find another way to sucker money out of her flock.
Well, well, well. mama grizzley may have lost her power.
cant make money off of the suckers?
Palin is such a Jackass. This is one country that celebrates a jackass. Every time I see a Palin bumper sticker I see a moron driving a car. But what can I say, I used to watch fox news many years ago, until I realized how much propaganda came from that organization.
I was an idiot back then, so I guess I shouldn't judge. Well, I will anyway. Palin supporters are morons!
There you have it:)
Hopefully the result won't be determined by the Supreme Court....
There may be a couple of issues up before the Supreme Court with this year's election.
The fracturing of the Alaska Republican party will continue long after the write-in ballots are counted. The battle between Sarah Palin's tea party supporters and Lisa Murkowski's moderates will be reflected in the Congress as other Republicans seek to identify the GOP platform. Democrats have two years to build a coalition of disengaged voters and swing moderates, who supported Lisa Murkowski out of fear that Joe Miller might win. Only 40% of Alaskan's voted in this mid-term election, while 70% of rural Alaskan's voted over whelming for the "write-in" candidate. Joe Miller's support base remained vocal and constant throughout the election.
"only 40% of Alaskans voted" that is twice as many as in the primary so I would say that defeating Joe Miller meant a lot to Alaska voters. We begged Lisa to enter as a write-in. It is Republicans who got lazy and did not vote in the primary that caused this problem and there are plenty pounding their chests and crying at their own stupidity. But we all pulled up our socks and got it done. Democrats only win in Juneau and Gustavus anyway where all the liberal government hangers-on or hippie eco greenies live because they want to influence government decisions. Alaska is predominantly undeclared if you want the truth. We think for ourselves and do not like outsiders telling us how to vote or who to support. That only riles us up and makes want to prove them wrong. Palin is an embarrassment. Joe would be an abomination.