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My understanding is that it's been a matter of pride by Nebraska Republicans that Nebraska was state #50 that Clinton visited, right at the end of his presidency. As opposed to California, where he found any and every excuse to poke his nose into through his first term, as it was the state he most needed to set down for his electoral strategy.

Voted for the Atheist? http://www.indyweek.com/g.../Content?oid=oid%3A267990

What's the Matter with Alaska? Are they really sending Ted Stevens, Convicted Felon, back the the US Senate?

Back to Alaska: the results in Alaska are puzzling everyone. Polling was completely out of sync with the results -- which might be able to be explained as a product of a sort of "Bradley / Wilder" Effect, perhaps, where people wouldn't admit to pollsters that they were voting for Ted Stevens and Don Young. (Actually, everyone's been disputing the "Bradley Effect" as a bit of fiction, but there are other examples of the general effect. David Duke underpolled in his statewide races in Louisiana in the early 1990s, for example.)

But then the voting was down as well. In this year where Palin was expected to drive Alaskans to the polls.

Spurious suggestions are being made in blogging comments that Alaskan election officials must have just casually tossed a bunch of ballots into the Pacific Ocean.

Mark Begich has overtaken Ted Stevens in the balloting, as early votes and absentee votes are being counted. He lead at the end of yesterday by THREE -- count them, one two three -- votes. He now has a "comfortable" lead in the three digits. Unless there's something about the ballot that were just counted that makes them different from those yet to be counted (Anchorage goes first?), this strikes me as an irreversible trend in the direction of Begich. Mark Begich wins. Ted Stevens loses. The other permetation comes with Sarah Palin having started to send out feelers suggesting she might just pursue the Ted Stevens seat after Stevens is kicked out of the Senate (right now it's the basis of a leadership fight within the Republican Party with Jim DeMint challenging Mitch McConnell to have the vote to kick him out of the Republican Caucus). But, this prospect of "Senator Palin" is moot with the apparent Stevens loss. The other two Senate seats not decided: Al Franken versus Norm Coleman in Minnesota and the run-off between Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin in Georgia. I suspect that that 3 digit lead will be overtaken by Franken in Minnesota in the re-count as the "Intent of the Voter" is guaged by such voters that circled where they should have squared or squared where they should have circled. I also can say that Republicans will forever believe Franken stole that election in the dead of several nights and the election result is illegitimate. This is just as well, because they already believe Al Franken was an illegitimate Senate Candidate in the first place.