Ballots are still being counted in the Alaska Senate race, where Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich leads Republican incumbent Sen. Ted Stevens by 814 votes. Vote-tallying resumes today, with some 40,000 uncounted ballots remaining.

From the Anchorage Daily News:

More than half the absentee and questioned ballots still to be counted in Alaska's U.S. Senate race come from areas of the state that backed Democrat Mark Begich on Election Day.

That's not a good sign for Republican Sen. Ted Stevens as he seeks to overcome Begich's 814-vote lead when counting resumes today of just over 41,000 remaining ballots. A Daily News analysis, based on data provided by the state Division of Elections, shows that 56 percent of those ballots come from districts that favored Begich on Nov. 4.

The state will count about 40 percent of remaining ballots today and the rest early next week. Democrats like the trend but are wary of expressing too much confidence in a state that for decades has proven a graveyard for their hopes.

Should Begich come out victorious, it would be Democrats' seventh Senate seat pick-up, giving them 58 seats (including Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman and Independent Bernie Sanders). Two races in Georgia and Minnesota remain undecided.

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