Alaska Senate

So now we know that a Special Election would have to be held to succeed Ted Stevens, assuming he is eventually called as the winner of the Alaska senate race and either resigns or is dismissed from the Senate. The way I read the tea leaves - admittedly just a guess - is that Sarah Palin would like this to stretch out a while so that the presidential election can be a few months in the past. At that point, some of the negative emotion of the performance of the McCain/Palin ticket and her role in it would be past, but she would still be in a strong position to take the senate seat if she ran for it. We'll see.