Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich has pulled ahead of convicted felon, Ted Stevens in the hotly contested Alaska senate race. This has been a strange race, where apparently there was absolutely no pollster who could come even close to predicting this race. The polls after Steven's conviction a few days before November 4th, had Begich in the lead by 8-22 points.
Though now it looks like Begich will at least pull through by a small margin. Then there will only be the two uncalled seats left in Minnesota and Georgia. Democrats need both of them for the magic number of 60 seats. That is if Lieberman stays caucusing with Democrats. In my opinion 60 does not really matter because you will almost always have defections on all sides. Joe Lieberman to the Republicans. Olymbia Snowe, Susan Collins, and Norm Coleman to the Democrats. If you have 62-63 or so seats it will become truly filibuster proof.
In other news the four candidates for secretary of state are Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Tom Daschle, and Bill Richardson. It will be interesting to see who gets chosen, especially if it is Hillary.
By the way the reason I didn't post last night or the night before was because on Tuesdays I have Karate almost all night and on Wednesdays I have bass guitar.
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