- Sen, Stevens wins re-election - not as unlikely as one might think. Remember that Alaskans love their pork and the Senator has been bringing home the bacon for 40 years.
- The Senate gets together and summarily boots his felonious keester out of the Capitol.
- Alaska holds a special election to dill the empty Senate seat. #1 likely candidate? A certain popular power-hungry Alaska governor.
- Sarah Palin joins her (no-longer?) best pal John McCain in a Democratically-dominated Senate.
Yeah, yeah. I know there are a lot of "if"s in that, but I don't think it's all that unlikely.
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Or if Stevens retires sometime after winning re-election, she can just appoint herself to fill his seat.
ReplyDeleteWhich is probably even more unlikely, but as long as we're speculating wildly.
Oh, I'm entirely wrong: there's laws in Alaska preventing the governor from appointing a senator to fill a vacant seat. There's just special elections.
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