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Originally Posted by smooth
I didn't hear anything about a special election. I heard the governor appoints the seat. Since Palin is the governor, she can't appoint herself. But the commentator, I think it was Rachel Maddow, said she could step down and her lt. gov is elevated to gov and then he can appoint her to the Senate.
[...] Maybe the communities are too small to vote against one of your own without having to deal with it sometime down the road.
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I think they have secret ballots up there. Theoretically, you could vote for Stevens and no one would be the wiser.
Everything i've heard or read says special election. It's different in Illinois, where Blagojevich will appoint someone
Finally and most importantly, there are absentee early and absentee ballots yet to be counted. Based on the known returns, Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com projects Begich to win by 3,000 votes.