Three. It's the magic number

Alaska finally got around to counting some of those votes today. It's a complicated process. An elderly lady has to climb to the top of an extremely tall ladder to reach the top shelf where all the votes are stored and is allowed to bring down one vote to be counted. It is repeated until all the votes are counted or the old woman dies of exhaustion, in which event she is replaced by another old woman. They counted about 40,000 votes, went through 4 old women, and with another 12,000 votes to go the current tally stands at...

Stevens (R) 125,016
Begich (D) 125,019

That's right, Begich is beating the Hulkster by three votes.