Okay, let's try Alaska, that pure-of-earmarks bastion of well-governed laissez faire capitalism ever-vigilant with watchful eye over the evil Russian Empire (which may or may not be a continent to Palin):
"This just in from Alaska (10 November), where thousands of new ballots continue to be found each day, since it was first reported that turnout in 2008 was 11% lower than in 2004. Thousands of ballots, nearly a third of them, remain uncounted nearly a week after the election. Their numbers could explain the strange results so far in races --- such as those of the felonious Sen. Ted Stevens (R) and the under-investigation Rep. Don Young (R) --- for which pollsters had predicted decisive losses for the Republicans.
Even with the newly acknowledged ballots and even with Alaska's once-popular Gov. Sarah Palin and popular Sen. Barack Obama both on the Presidential ballot this year, turnout numbers still remain slightly below those from 2004. The Anchorage Daily News, with numbers somewhat out of date from those now posted below, called it all "puzzling" over the weekend, and pointed out much of what we've detailed here in previous posts."
As of today, My Birthday, vote tallies are still incomplete and voter turnout numbers are strangely incongruent with the electoral circumstances and expectations.
Then there's... Missouri:
"Missouri remains the only state where it's officially unclear which candidate carried the state. And it may take another two or three weeks before a winner is declared.
McCain's latest lead is 4,968 votes, out of more than 2.9 million See how Missouri voted
cast.
Yet to be counted: an estimated 7,000 provisional ballots — most cast in Obama-leaning areas — that are just now being examined to determine which ones were cast by properly registered voters in the correct polling place."
I know Obama won by a landslide, but isn't it funny how in each state it's a Republican with the lead and the Democratic candidate whose votes keep "appearing" from the oddest places?
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