Alaska's three electoral college voters cast their ballots Monday for U.S. Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, marking the first time an Alaska electorate voted for a governor from this state.
Kelly still leads House race by 1 vote
The final tally is in -- and this time state Rep. Mike Kelly really is one vote ahead of his rival.
Stevens concedes election to Begich
Sen. Ted Stevens conceded the election for U.S. Senate to Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich on Wednesday, bringing an end to his 40 years as the titan of Alaska politics.
VIDEO
Video from all the activity on a wild election in Alaska, including interviews with the major candidates and Gov. Palin's vote in Wasilla.
SECTION
The nation was captivated by Sarah Palin's run to the White House, and now Alaska awaits the return of their governor.
SECTION
When the FBI raided state legislature offices in Aug. 2006, it publicly launched an investigation that ultimately reached the highest levels of Alaska politics, and continues to this day.
McCain and Palin59.49%192,631REP
Obama and Biden37.83%122,485DEM
Begich, Mark47.76%150,728DEM
Stevens, Ted46.58%147,004REP
Young, Don E.50.19%158,034REP
Berkowitz, Ethan A.45.02%141,754DEM
Letter adds new twist to Stevens conviction
A key prosecution witness in the trial of Sen. Ted Stevens has told the trial judge that some of his testimony wasn't true and that he suspects prosecutors left him in a room with evidence and grand jury transcripts so he could surreptitiously refresh his memory about 6-year-old events.
Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii: "The responsibility our country has for its indigenous people has been one of the major causes that Ted Stevens has pursued. He has made a huge difference in it, and I want to say that I’ve been delighted working with him in helping our indigenous people in Alaska as well as in Hawaii and around the world."
Stevens bids farewell in speech to Senate
Sen. Ted Stevens ended his four-decade congressional career today, ushered out by his Senate colleagues with a dignity not shown by jurors in his corruption trial nor by the voters in Alaska who declined to return him to Washington for an eighth term.
Stevens concedes election to Begich
Sen. Ted Stevens conceded the election for U.S. Senate to Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich on Wednesday, bringing an end to his 40 years as the titan of Alaska politics.
Supporters of President-elect Barack Obama react to his election Tues., Nov. 4, 2008. [enlarge video | more election day video]
Court rules against ballot initiative group
A group supporting publicly financed elections has lost its fight over a failed ballot initiative.
The day after voters failed to pass Ballot Measure 4, initiative supporters were regrouping, trying to come up with strategy for fighting the mining industry and the Pebble Mine, a huge copper and gold deposit in Southwest Alaska near the world's most productive wild salmon streams.
Voters cool to election funding, gaming measures
Alaska voters on Tuesday were rejecting ballot measures that would have created a Gaming Commission and that would have established a voluntary program of public funding for state election campaigns.
Predator control limitations likely to be shot down
Alaskans were saying no Tuesday to a ballot initiative designed to end the state's predator control program as now conducted.
Measure 4 failing by large margin
"No" votes took a big lead over "Yes" votes in the epic battle over Ballot Measure 4.
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Rep. Kelly remains 1 vote ahead of challenger in Fairbanks
The final vote is in - and state Rep. Mike Kelly is still one vote ahead of his rival.
Berkowitz concedes race to Young
The winner of the race for Alaska's sole House seat wasn't really in doubt after Election Day, when longtime incumbent Rep. Don Young led Democratic challenger Ethan Berkowitz by more than 16,000 votes.
Young, Stevens still connect with voters
While a Democratic wave swept the rest of the nation, not even FBI investigations could keep Alaska's Republican congressional delegation from holding leads the day after the election.
Kelly still leads House race by 1 vote
The final tally is in -- and this time state Rep. Mike Kelly really is one vote ahead of his rival.
Kelly clings to 1-vote lead in House race
If Mike Kelly and Karl Kassel are nervous about the undecided outcome of their state House race, they aren't showing it.
ELECTION 2008: ALASKA LEGISLATURE
7 candidates widen leads in tight races
With the country's attention turned to Alaska's barnburner of a U.S. Senate race, state legislators watched the latest election numbers with their own hides in mind Wednesday night. Of the four incumbent lawmakers who began the day fewer than 200 votes ahead of their opponents, three widened the gap in the most recent count.
ALASKA NOTEBOOK
Election Day is less than a month away, and the U.S. Senate race has captured voters' attention. Or maybe driven them crazy. Here are some things I've heard from Alaskans discussing the three major candidates.
POINT / COUNTERPOINT
Constitutional, fiscally responsible government is not 'extremist'
Today liberal politicians like to call "extremist" people who believe in a constitutional, fiscally responsible federal government. But I never thought I would hear Lisa Murkowski call a majority of her fellow Alaskans who cared enough to take the time to vote in the primary, by the same term: "extremist."
POINT / COUNTERPOINT
Longtime Republican almost forced to vote for a Democrat
Last Friday I joined thousands of Alaskans in a huge sigh of relief. "Thank God she's still in," I said to myself. For the past few weeks I have been preparing to do the unthinkable -- vote for a Democrat. As a former Platinum Member of the RNC you'd think it would have been a tough decision. It wasn't. I knew I could never cast a vote for Joe Miller.
POINT-COUNTERPOINT: MEAD TREADWELL
Alaska needs leader willing to fight for state
Three big challenges facing our state compelled me to run for office this year. First, we need to fill the Alaska oil pipeline. Second, we need to get a deal on a natural gas pipeline. Third, we need to work to diversify our economy.
A guide to No Child Left Behind
Ten states now have President Barack Obama's OK to scrap one of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education - that all students measure up in reading and math by 2014. In exchange, the states had to promise they would raise standards and develop more creative ways to measure what students are learning.
Obama call for manufacturing revival a tough goal
Foreign donations are a risk in super PAC setting
New 'Game Change' trailer has more of Moore as Palin
Another trailer for the upcoming HBO film "Game Change," about the 2008 presidential campaign, gives us a better look at Julianne Moore in the Sarah Palin role.
Donations to Palin PAC drop in second half of 2011
Tennessee sentence upheld in Palin email hacking
Battling over Newt: A tea party tempest on Palin's Facebook page
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