With Alaska Senate race unsettled, candidates seek cash

By Richard Mauer | Anchoage Daily News

ANCHORAGE - Both candidates in the U.S. Senate race are going back to their supporters seeking new donations as their contest goes to post-election overtime and the possibility looms that it will be decided by contested ballots.

Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens led Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, the Democrat, by 3,257 votes after the last of the election day ballots were tallied Wednesday afternoon.

But election officials reported that as of Friday, they had 81,224 uncounted ballots on hand — about a third more than those counted so far. Absentee ballots mailed from U.S. locations with an election day postmark can continue to arrive until next Friday to be counted, and from overseas and military bases until Nov. 19 ...

Democrat Ethan Berkowitz, running against Republican Rep. Don Young, says his election is also still in play, though he’s much further behind than Begich. In the Wednesday tally, Young led 114,043 to 97,104, a spread of nearly 8 percentage points ...

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Begich website: http://www.begich.com/

in my opinion. (I know there are Alaska posters here who will disagree with me.) He never really connected with a lot of people here, including myself, and my guess is he did not do nearly so well in the Bush as Don Young did. Ethan's primary opponent, Diane Benson, earned many more votes in the rural areas of Alaska in August than Ethan.