My basic extrapolation run on the Alaska vote counts only predicts Peltola gaining a couple thousand votes, which I don’t think puts her past 50%. So that’s not at all conclusive.
However, if you like Sullivan’s chances you can buy Sullivan to win for 3¢ on the dollar on Kalshi or for 1.5¢ on Polymarket.
They’re 4 hours earlier than the US east coast, and 1 earlier than the US west coast.
Decent bet it’ll be close to normal close of business Alaska time. Presumably they’d want as long as possible during today’s working day to make progress counting & double check, write their press releases, record their vids, etc. then have the big reveal all at once via all media types.
So probably well after dinner for us east coasters. Probably.
I’ve never heard someone say the west coast was earlier than the east coast, though you’re right that at any given time, the time itself is earlier. I’ve just never in my life heard someone say the time zone itself is earlier; EST is always said to be 3 hours earlier than PST. So the way LSLGuy phrased it was backwards.
But phrased a different way, you could say that when they’re counting votes in Alaska it will be 4 hours earlier than the east coast.
I was commenting on what seems to me to be a simple mistake, and I still believe it is, but I wasn’t trying to turn it into a whole conversation, as this is a thread on Senate races and not time zones.
That’s the race I’m anxious about, because AFAIK that one should be close to being decided, and there’s little chance of a recount because it’s really difficult to get one.
Mississippi Democratic challenger Scott Colom was narrowly leading incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith as of 2:55 p.m. ET on Nov. 10, with a margin of about 2,700 votes in a race with almost 1 million votes, or 99% of the total vote counted, according to results from USA TODAY.