Begich Takes The Lead

Mark Begich takes a commanding lead in the Alaska Senate race...

UPDATE: (5:41pm Pacific): What was meant as snark may actually be true.

From Nate Silver:

Roughly 15,000 additional votes have come in in Alaska, with more to come, and Democrat Mark Begich has taken a three-vote lead over Republican Ted Stevens, 125019 to 125016.

More to come tonight and in the coming few days to finish off the race, but given where we expect the remaining votes are located, this looks very good for Begich. It looks very bad for Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, and Andrew Sullivan, who probably wanted the material if Sarah Palin were to run to replace Stevens in a special election.

UPDATE (10:07pm Pacific): Now it's 814 Votes.