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Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
This is encouraging: The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that Republican Senator Ted Stevens is trailing by two percentage points in his bid for re-election. Stevens attracts 45% of the vote while Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich (D) earns 47%. A month ago, it was Stevens with 46% support and Begich at 45%. Any incumbent who polls below 50% is considered potentially...
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adn.com: Alaska (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Superior Court judge has ruled the Alaska Public Offices Commission erred when it found that former Senate President Ben Steven violated state law by failing to disclose the clients of one of this consulting firms, Advance North.In a decision handed down May 5 in Anchorage, Judge Sen Tan threw out the $5,000 fine assessed by APOC against Stevens on March 30, 2007.Stevens, a Republican,...
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The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
Poll city today. Rasmussen (5/14, likely voters, 4/7 in parens): Mark Begich (D) : 47 (45) Ted Stevens (R-inc) : 45 (46) (MoE: ?5%) The crosstabs (sub. req'd) show a few interesting numbers: Begich leads among independents by a 53-35 margin. Among Republicans, he's running stronger (15%) than Stevens is with Democratic voters (9%). The same round of polling also shows McCain beating Obama...
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D-Day (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Ted Stevens is in for the fight of his life in Alaska against Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich. A new poll commissioned by Daily Kos shows Begich with a 5-point lead on Stevens, up 48-43. Begich is a good guy who is on the right side of a lot of issues, including net neutrality, and it's interesting that he rightly understands a neutral Internet as an economic engine. "Net Neutrality has allowed...
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Time (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Article Tools (WASHINGTON) — The Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market.Related Articles NUCLEAR OPTION In an unsubtle effort to shut up the Democrats, Republicans threatened to enact this ... "Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is seeking to apply the same decency standards...
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The Rothenberg Political Report (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
... Gordon Smith and Susan Collins look less at risk than colleagues John Sununu, Norm Coleman and Ted Stevens. On the Democratic side, only Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu looks to be at considerable risk. The DSCC will have a big financial advantage over the NRSC, so Republicans are waiting to see how and where DSCC chair Chuck Schumer spends his cash. Democrats are certain to gain Senate seats...
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craigblog (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Hey, this is another really good effort from Sunlight Foundation. You can check out links like the following: Senator Ted Stevens, currently the subject of corruption investigation. Senator Mitch McConnell caught suppressing new Senate rules for transparency and accountability. Senator...
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An Alaskan Abroad (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
... error of 4 percentage points. The same poll shows Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich leading GOP warhorse Ted Stevens by 5 points. Begich would be the choice of 48 percent of those responding if the election was held today. Forty-three percent said they would vote for Stevens. While Stevens and Begich did comparably well among voters of their own parties, some 56 percent of Independents...
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The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Well this ought to be good. First let's hear from Senator Ted Stevens: "This is the California extreme environmentalists who've decided to use the polar bear as an example of global warming. They're gonna say this is global warming. It has nothing to do with global warming. This is a concept called climate change. It is a concept of a process that's been going on for years....This species is...
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Republican Senate (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Two new polls released this week suggest that two more Senate seats have moved considerably in favor of the Democrats. In Alaska, it appears as though the already-too-long career of the poster-boy for earmark reform, Sen. Ted Stevens, is about to come to an end. Other polls have shown this race to be [...]
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Aviation Now (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... EDS equipment without the surcharge funding, unless a cheaper form of equipment can be found.Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, the committee's senior Republican, urged Hawley to seek an intra-state travel exemption for states like Alaska and Hawaii where residents must routinely fly as their primary form of transportation."There are probably 10,000 to 15,000 people in my state who are flying more...
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Blue Oasis (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Kos shows his latest poll information:If 2008 election for Congress were held today, for whom would you vote for if the choices were between Ethan Berkowitz, the Democrat, and Don Young, the Republican'Young (R) 40 (42) Berkowitz (D) 50 (49)If 2008 election for U.S. Senate were held today, for whom would you vote for if the choices were between Mark Begich, the Democrat, and Ted Stevens, the...
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Liberally Conservative (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... in the House, up from 203 seats they controlled two years ago and prospects in November are worse. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, has been badly damaged by scandals in Alaska. Sen. John E. Sununu (NH) is defending a seat in a state where Democratic fortunes are on the rise, and other Republican senators — including Susan Collins (ME), Norm Coleman (MN.) and...
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Down With Everybody (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... victory for extreme environmentalists who want to block all development in our state,” said Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. The rest .
