Alaska’s Republican Senator Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term in office after a knife-edge race against Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich.
The Democratic candidate led the Senate’s longest-serving Republican by 3,724 after Tuesday’s count, with only 2,500 overseas votes to be tallied
Mr Stevens, 85, was seen almost as an institution in his state, our correspondent says, to the extent that the airport in Anchorage was named after him.
But the Senate race in Alaska was plunged into controversy when Mr Stevens, 85, was convicted last month of lying about gifts he had received from an oil company.
His defeat means the Senate will have its first Democratic representative from Alaska for 30 years.
Say good bye to yet another corrupt official, to anothewr Republican.
I’m so glad that guy lost and is going to be out of the political scene. I can’t even believe he got as many votes as he did, and how close that race was!
I hear ya….did you see his speech to the senate? He said good-bye and got a standing ovation when finished…did I miss something? He is a convicted felon…a felon who used his position to gain…..I guess there is still hoinor among thieves, huh?
A standing ovation? Are we seriously exalting convicted felons now? I tell ya… this country and its values are going to shits…
looks like the corrupt ones in the senate were just showing appreciation to one of their own…..lol