Alaska Senate Race Ballot Madness: The STRANGEST Write-In Votes (PHOTOS)
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Votes are still being counted in Alaska, where GOP nominee Joe Miller is clinging to thin hopes that he will be able to get enough write-in votes disqualified so that he can make good on all of that premature drape-measuring and apartment-hunting he was bragging about doing prior to Election Day. Workers continue to comb through the write-ins, and what they're encountering runs the gamut of the write-in experience: close misspellings, unexpected names, joke votes...plus a healthy number of ballots that the Miller campaign is challenging for no discernible reason.
Only two people have ever won a write-in campaign to the U.S. Senate: South Carolina's Strom Thurmond in 1954, and California's William Knowland in 1946 -- who ran in an all-write-in special election for a two-month term. So something historic may be brewing up in The Last Frontier, but behind that backdrop, the ballot counters doing the nuts-and-bolts work are encountering their fair share of high weirdness. We've rounded up some of the behind-the-scenes highlights to commemorate this time in our lives.
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CookieDoughSavant said on 13 Saturday 2010 pm30 2:08 pm: Senatorial Numbers: Dems Win in : Washington, Oregon , California , Nevada, Colorado , West Virginia , New York (x2) , Vermont, Connecticut , Delaware, Maryland , Hawaii Total Votes Cast -------------- 25,995,009 Democratic ---------------------- 15,240,006 - 58.6% Republican ---------------------- 10,718,750 - 41.2% Independant --------------------- 38,253 ------- .2% Republicans win in : Idaho, Utah ,Arizona , North Dakota, South Dakota (uncontested) , Kansas , Oklahoma, Iowa , Missouri , Arkansas , Louisiana , Wisconsin , Illinois , Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina , Ohio , Penssylvania , New Hampshire Total Votes Cast ---------------- 39,007,776 Republican ------------------------ 22,321,424 - 57.2% Democratic ------------------------ 14,894,521 - 38.2% Independant ----------------------- 1,791,831 --- 4.6% Totals (Amalgamated) -------- 65,002,785 Republican ------------------------ 33,038,174 - 50.8% Democratic ----------------------- 30,134,527 - 46.4% Independant --------------------- 1,830,084 --- 2.8% Total Seats ----------------------- 36 Republican ------------------------ 23 - 64% Democratic ----------------------- 13 - 36% Independant ---------------------- 0% ( Alaska not counted as of yet) Bottom Line ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - MILLIONS of the young demographic that showed up in 2008 stayed home - Large population states are severely misrepresented - Small farming states are disproportionately represented .....and by republicans . - the United States is NOT a center right country - elections have consequences . 2012 can just as easily swing back democratic ...and will! |
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First Posted: 11/12/10 12:15 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:10 PM ET