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FAIRBANKS--Former Gov. Tony Knowles congratulated Sen. Lisa Murkowski on her victory in the U.S. Senate race Wednesday afternoon and said he didn?t think the remaining uncounted votes would change the results.

ANCHORAGE?Hundreds of thousands of Alaska voters were expected to cast their ballots Tuesday, drawn to the polls by the presidential race, a bitterly contested U.S. Senate campaign and a number of hot-button propositions.

ANCHORAGE-- A delay in sending out hundreds of absentee ballots should not prevent anyone from getting their ballots postmarked by Election Day, a member of Lt. Gov. Loren Leman?s staff said Monday.

• Final day: Candidates dash for votes  11-1-04

WASHINGTON--Democrats running for the Senate in Republican-leaning states want to be more like President Bush clearing brush in Crawford, Texas, than John Kerry windsurfing off Nantucket Island, Mass.

WASHINGTON--Only in Washington: Republicans need 50 seats to retain control of the Senate in Tuesday's elections, but Democrats must have 51 to take it away.

ANCHORAGE--Nearly 2,500 absentee ballots were held up a day at a Juneau post office because the state Division of Elections underestimated the cost of postage, according to postal officials.

• The battle for Congress  10-30-04
• Candidates seek Native vote  10-29-04
• Alaska vote fraud hotline ready  10-29-04
• Candidates meet again  10-28-04
• Absentee ballot glitches surface  10-27-04
• 'Others' buried by Big Two  10-27-04
• Debate touches age, change, nepotism  10-26-04
• Alaska missing out on vote funds  10-26-04
• PAC money rolls in nationwide  10-26-04
• Knowles, Exxon continue tax argument  10-26-04
• Governor: Gas line schedule not politics  10-26-04
• Murkowski's 'other' helping hand  10-25-04
• Democrats shift right in Senate races  10-24-04
• Heavy voting in Fairbanks  10-23-04
• Like Alaska's, South Dakota's race on fire  10-23-04
• Emotions run hot in Alaska's biggest city  10-23-04
• 36 million may cast ballots before Nov. 2  10-22-04
• Exxon spills into Senate race  10-22-04
• Candidates have eye on Fairbanks  10-21-04
• Murkowski opposes vacancies measure  10-20-04
• Murkowski on the bubble  10-20-04
• 'Other' candidates make their pitch  10-19-04
• Complaint filed over Murkowski support  10-19-04
• Anti-abortion group declines endorsement  10-19-04
• Early voting under way in Alaska  10-19-04
• Candidates set for Fairbanks faceoff  10-18-04
• Gas line ignites debate between candidates  10-18-04
• Alaska officials confident in voting machines  10-17-04
• Vacancy measure weighs in Senate race  10-17-04
• Across the nation, a mean season  10-16-04
• Interior secretary hits state for Murkowski  10-16-04
• Candidates meet in first debate  10-15-04
• Who will lead Alaska's junior senator?  10-14-04
• Murkowski seeking Alaska Right to Life support  10-14-04
• Democrats, GOP argue over absentee ballots  10-13-04
• Alaska GOP tops Democrats in new voters  10-13-04
• Knowles questions Murkowski's gas line role  10-12-04
• Murkowski, Knowles square off  10-10-04
• Gas line OK?d in House, argued in Senate race  10-10-04
• Vandals break windows at GOP office  10-9-04
• Senate recess delayed; Murkowski kept in D.C.  10-9-04
• Senate may be more diverse after election  10-6-04
• Murkowski asserts union backing during Fairbanks stop  10-3-04
• Judge accepts ballot wording in Senate vacancies measure  10-3-04
• Court tells state to rewrite ballot language--again  10-2-04
• State won't appeal ruling in Senate initiative case  10-1-04

WASHINGTON?Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle hugged President Bush from one end of South Dakota to the other this summer. In his own campaign commercials.

ANCHORAGE?An Anchorage Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered the state to rewrite, reprint and redistribute all 517,000 of its ballots for the Nov. 2 election.

ANCHORAGE--U.S. Senate candidate and former Gov. Tony Knowles received the endorsement Wednesday of the Alaska Teamsters union, which represents more than 7,000 workers in the state.

• Candidates agree to debates  9-29-04
• Knowles courts, accepts unions' support  9-27-04
• Former Murkowski foe urges defeat of Knowles  9-19-04
• NEA-Alaska throws support behind Knowles  9-18-04
• School leaders upset by Murkowski mass e-mail  9-17-04
• Miller endorses Murkowski  9-8-04
• Knowles gets AFL-CIO endorsement  9-2-04

WASHINGTON--The state administration has appealed a judge's order to add Ray Metcalfe's name to the list of U.S. Senate candidates on the general election ballot.

ANCHORAGE--The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday ordered back on the ballot an initiative to change how Alaska fills its U.S. Senate vacancies.

FAIRBANKS--The fairgoers have spoken, and they've picked Miller and Knowles.

• GOP Senate candidates appear at forum  8-18-04
• Judge puts Republican Moderate on November ballot  8-17-04
• Lots at stake for Alaska's small parties  8-11-04

WASHINGTON--The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee has dismissed a complaint against Sen. Lisa Murkowski's campaign manager and former chief of staff.

ANCHORAGE--An initiative changing how U.S. Senate vacancies are filled should not appear on the general election ballot because a new state law has the same effect, an assistant attorney general told the Alaska Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON--An Alaska political activist has filed an ethics complaint alleging that Sen. Lisa Murkowski's former chief of staff improperly sent an e-mail from a U.S. Senate office regarding a political poll in Alaska last year.

ANCHORAGE--The power of incumbency means name recognition, it usually means money, and for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, it equals appearances in Alaska this week with Cabinet secretaries, Republican senators and the co-chair of the Republican National Committee.

FAIRBANKS--A group of Fairbanks civic and business leaders announced their support Friday for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's election bid.

ANCHORAGE--Supporters of an initiative seeking to change how Alaska fills unexpired U.S. Senate terms sued Tuesday to put the measure on the ballot.

• Group presses Leman on vacancy initiative  6-15-04
• Appointment bill becomes law; effect on initiative unclear  6-9-04
• Candidates seek votes at veterans convention  6-6-04

ANCHORAGE--Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign swung west this week, but its arc stopped short of Alaska where Democrat Tony Knowles is trying to wrest one of the state's Senate seats from Republican hands.

WASHINGTON--Lt. Gov. Loren Leman on Tuesday endorsed Mike Miller's bid to win the Republican primary race for U.S. Senate.

ANCHORAGE--Last October, just days before the municipal election, phones started ringing at the 10,206 households of Juneau and Douglas.

WASHINGTON--Alaska Right to Life, the state's leading opponent of legalized abortion, endorsed Mike Miller's candidacy for the U.S. Senate Wednesday.

FAIRBANKS--From campaign finance to missile defense, education to veterans' benefits, the crowd at a Tony Knowles' campaign event in Fairbanks Saturday afternoon covered the gamut of federal policy.

WASHINGTON--An audience nearly half comprised of Alaskans cheered Thursday night as first lady Laura Bush said her husband needs "leaders like Senator (Lisa) Murkowski to strengthen our national security, our homeland security and our economic security."

• Miller to challenge Murkowski in GOP primary  4-15-04
• Cheney campaigns for Murkowski in Alaska  4-10-04
• Murkowski confronts her own selection  4-3-04

FAIRBANKS--The National Rifle Association announced its endorsement of U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, at a campaign gathering in Fairbanks on Saturday.

FAIRBANKS--With more than seven months until the election, U.S. Senate candidiate Tony Knowles is increasing his pace. Or, as the former two-time Alaska governor would say, "We're picking up steam." Knowles wants to oust Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in what is expected to be one of the most-watched political races in Alaska.

WASHINGTON--The two major contenders for Alaska's junior U.S. Senate seat are filling out their top campaign staff positions, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski naming a manager and both she and former Gov. Tony Knowles hiring rural outreach coordinators. Murkowski hired Justin Stiefel as her campaign manager Feb. 1. Stiefel had been working as Murkowski's Senate office chief of staff in Washington, D.C.