Without an obvious pick like the N.L.'s Bonds, Rodriguez may be a high choice on a lot of ballots and that might be enough to snare the M.V.P. award.
"It's a good thing that you can look at a lot of ballots," Stark points out, "but it doesn't answer the right question.
In Sarasota County, the supervisor of elections, Marilyn Gerkin, a Republican, said the county had always had a lot of unvoted ballots with its punch-card system, which has been in use for more than 20 years.
In Pennsylvania, the gap between Clinton's and Trump's votes narrowed dramatically even before the recount, as officials got around to actually counting all the ballots (according to Decision Desk HQ, on the day after the election Trump was reported to be ahead in Pennsylvania by 126,091 votes, but that lead had narrowed to 44,321 this week, after officials actually counted a lot of the ballots).
"The proof is we had a lot of provisional ballots issued," although the office hadn't finished counting them by the middle of last week.
But it is a fascinating year in Nebraska politics, with wide-open races for governor, Senate, and a lot of down ballot races as well, and I suspect some populists are going to jump in to some of these races and give the Republican establishment a run for its money.
It aimed to increase stability by separating the ballots for prime minister and Knesset, but lots of people split their vote, causing even more fragmentation than before.
Look for Mad Max: Fury Road to gobble up lots of Oscars in the down-ballot categories like Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Film Editing, Production Design, and Makeup and Hair Styling.
We will likely have to find about a dozen Republicans who will vote with us, but there are lots of Republicans who are on the ballot in 2020," Murphy said at a press conference announcing the Senate measure Monday.
