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17 Nov 2010 20:13

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Politics: Joe Miller WILL NOT CONCEDE that Lisa Murkowski beat him

  • It’s never over until the count is done. I would encourage people to recognize that 255,000 votes were cast in the US Senate race and right now what we have is about a 2000 vote difference. Less than one percent.
  • Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller • Holding on a little too closely to the belief that he still has a shot in the race. The AP called the race for Murkowski today, making her the first candidate since Strom Thurmond in 1954 to win a race on write-in ballots alone. Murkowski hasn’t declared victory today but she is expected to soon. Miller, however, whose campaign contested 8,153 ballots, is still behind by more than .5 percent, which means that if he wants a recount, he’s gonna have to pay for it himself. Look man, we understand you weren’t expecting Murkowski to win. But your cavalier attitude towards your opponents hurt you down the stretch. source
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15 Nov 2010 23:21

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Politics: Lisa Murkowski: Very close to beating Joe Miller in Alaska

  • 92,164 votes in favor of Lisa Murkowski right now
  • 90,458 number of votes Joe Miller has in the election at this point
  • 7,601 number of write-in votes Miller’s camp has contested so far
  • 10k number of write-in votes Murkowski is expected to get after today source
  • » So, to put it simply: Lisa Murkowski is on track to beat Joe Miller in Alaska, even after the contested votes with misspellings and other errors.
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10 Nov 2010 10:48

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Politics: WTF argument of the day: Murkowski misspellings “protest votes”

  • The new policy makes no provision for the many voters who cast protest votes.
  • A line from the lawsuit filed on behalf of Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller • Explaining that (stay with us, this gets confusing) write-in votes with Lisa Murkowski’s name spelled incorrectly are protest votes, intended to sabotage Murkowski’s widely-pushed campaign to get people to spell her name correctly on write-in votes. But Alaska doesn’t plan to consider them that way. “To the contrary,” the lawsuit states, “the state is indicating that it will now count a protest vote, deliberately cast with a misspelling as a vote for Murkowski. This effectively nullifies the protest and falsely inflates the vote for the write-in candidate. In short, the state has become a super-voter and will override voter intent and recast the votes for the candidate the state chooses.” Or perhaps people in fact aren’t as good at spelling as Miller’s lawyer gives them credit for. source
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03 Nov 2010 20:50

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Politics: In Alaska, Scott McAdams may not have won, but he kinda did

  • People had to be convinced (Scott McAdams) could beat Joe Miller, and if he had two more weeks he could have done that. Scott would have won if Lisa hadn’t jumped in.
  • Alaska Democratic Party spokesperson Deborah Williams • Sounding bullish about Scott McAdams’ future success in Alaska politics. McAdams entered the Senate race with the mere intention of drawing attention towards his own political abilities, which the election did – and then some. Even though he lost Tuesday (unlike Joe Miller, he conceded to Lisa Murkowski already), his political stock went way up in a race which drew disproportionate amounts of attention thanks to the war of words between the other two candidates. “He could look at anything from state senator to governor to Congress,” Williams said. “He’s certainly got options.” See, being a third party to an unbelievably messy situation can be beneficial sometimes! source
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03 Nov 2010 10:10

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Politics: Lisa Murkowski hopes people know how to spell her last name

  • 41% of votes went to write in votes, presumably for Lisa Murkowski
  • 34.2% of votes went to Joe Miller, who’s not willing to give up his fight
  • 23.7% of votes went to Scott McAdams, who won’t be heading to DC source
  • » When will we know? It’s probably going to be a while. The issue of “voter intent” will likely come up in this election with the write-ins, which will inevitably have misspellings due to the fact that Murkowski has a complicated last name. (Though Murkowski has done tons of work to let people know how to spell it.) Miller’s folks won’t concede until after there’s been a hand count.
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18 Sep 2010 10:52

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Politics: Lisa Murkowski jumps into the abyss with write-in senate campaign

  • She most assuredly won’t win, and Sarah Palin and her friends are angry. Lisa Murkowski isn’t going to let a guy with a beard into the Senate without a fight. The Alaska senator is launching a write-in campaign to get her seat back. “My heart is Alaska, and I cannot leave you. I cannot stop what we have started,”she said. For the Republican party as a whole, this is fairly misguided. See, a write-in senate candidate has won ONCE in U.S. history – Strom Thurmond’s 1954 election. It has the potential to split the vote between Murkowski and Republican nominee Joe Miller, plus she has to deal with petty attacks like this one from sworn enemy Palin: “It’s a futile effort on her part, it really is.” source
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03 Sep 2010 18:56

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Politics: Alaskans prefer Kenyan Socialist with funny name to Sarah Palin

  • 37% Sarah Palin’s approval rating in Alaska
  • 44% Barack Obama’s approval rating in Alaska source
  • » Who would have thought that abandoning your state halfway through your term as Governor might make your constituents dislike you? Also in that poll: Only 6% of Alaskans like Levi Johnston, and residents with positive feelings about Palin are twice as likely to believe they can see Russia from their houses as those who dislike her.
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01 Sep 2010 18:45

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Politics: Extreme conservatism isn’t all the Tea Party has to offer!

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31 Aug 2010 23:14

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U.S.: Super-close: Lisa Murkowski concedes to Joe Miller in Alaska

  • 1,210 votes separated Lisa from victory source
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25 Aug 2010 22:14

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Politics: Could Lisa Murkowski make a third-party run in Alaska?

  • We are going to take a look at them and see whether the option is there or not, but it’s a decision she (Murkowski) has to make. There is an option I know of.
  • A staffer for Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski • On the possibility that Sarah Palin’s most hated enemy will take her campaign out of the Republican Party if she loses to Joe Miller. Murkowski was viciously attacked by Palin in the days prior to the election and still has a ton of money left in her coffers, so she can afford it. There’s a backstory to the Palin thing, too. Frank Murkowski, Lisa’s dad, snubbed Sarah when appointing Lisa to the seat. Later, Palin unseated the elder (and then-unpopular) Murkowski in the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. source
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