Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) Down 9 Points In New Poll

A new Rasmussen poll shows Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican Senator in history, losing 50-41 to Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich.

Six years ago, Stevens won re-election with 78% of the vote. But since then, he's had some trouble with the FBI. (In addition to his record-setting service, Stevens is reportedly the only senator to have had his home raided by Feds.) According to Rasmussen, one in five Alaskan Republicans (20%) now support Dem Begich.

Barack Obama has made Alaska a battleground state, and the campaign hopes a hard-fought race there will help Begich.

Read more about Ted Stevens here.

Comments

[barackobama4prez]

12:34 PM on 07/22/2008

THROW THE BUMS OUT!

[JennyJay]

09:13 AM on 07/22/2008

Too many of these greedy, lying, lobby-lovi­ng, OLD crooks in the Senate and Congress have almost destroyed our country. How could we all be so dumb to as to keep electing them to office???
We pay them to work for us . . . and then they steal from us.
We have far too many crooks on our payroll. . . . Time to weed em out.

[hope]

06:10 AM on 07/22/2008

bye teds.

or should that be buy teds?

[imusintheevening]

01:25 AM on 07/22/2008

He will look good in an orange jump suit

[ggmome]

01:02 AM on 07/22/2008

Vicious ole boys, should be taken out of the 'loop', and sent to pasture.

[coloradosiren]

01:02 AM on 07/22/2008

Go get him.

[sdskelton03]

12:27 AM on 07/22/2008

Other than Robert Byrd, Ted Stevens pork haul is the most shameless in Washington­. I hope the voters of Alaska throw him out on backside.

[harriscrl3]

11:06 PM on 07/21/2008

Good VOte the Rethugs OUT!!

Carol

[thundermummy]

11:01 PM on 07/21/2008

He should take a long walk on a short bridge (to nowhere).

[finn929]

09:53 PM on 07/21/2008

I think Begich has a really good chance of picking up this seat which is a good thing for the Democrats because he is actually pretty liberal for being in Alaska.

[mamacat]

08:40 PM on 07/21/2008

No one should be above a reasonable interpreta­tion of the laws. Not Stevenson, not Rangel, and certainly not Bush/Chene­y.

[ErnestineBass]

08:39 PM on 07/21/2008

OMG!!!

It just dawned on me who Ted looks like!!!

Remember the regular Playboy cartoons that featured the horndog old lady?

[TXOBAMAGIRL73]

08:34 PM on 07/21/2008

Another oldie, but not so goodie going to the Rethugs Relic Museum for Dinosaurs and Other Out Dated Things.

[scooperss]

08:25 PM on 07/21/2008

GOOD!

[KOisGod]

08:14 PM on 07/21/2008

Ted Stevens about join Tom Delay, "The Duke", Rick Santorum, Denny Haster and the rest of the disgraced rethugs in the corruption hall of fame. Sponsored by AT&T and your communicat­ions friends of America.