Alaskan Elections Were Probably Very Corrupt & Fraudulent, It Being Alaska And All

Fancy this mystery from Alaska: as things stood before the election,recently convicted-on-seven-counts felonTed Stevens was appropriately losing by 13 percentage points in The Polls; similarly corrupt (but so far unconvicted!) at-large Rep. Don Young was losing by 6.5; John McCain was ahead by 14 in the state; early voting in the state was shattering records; and hometown gal Sarah Palin was still all the national rage. Sounds about right, HEHNGNN? And yet Alaska now finds itself on the brink of re-electing Stevens; Young easily kept his seat; McCain won by 25 percentage points; and voter turnout somehow declined 11% since 2004, when there was no mention of Alaska in the news! HMM WEIRD HUH? Well, fear not, because the most important mammal since Abraham Lincoln, NATE "DOGG" SILVER, is going to nab the bastards with his KILLA TREND LINE REGRESSIONS and cold motherfuckin' MATH LASER GLOCKS. Then he'll launch those slimy pervs into space with a pop-gun becausehe can do that. [ FiveThirtyEight , Andrew Sullivan ]