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11 Nov 2010 11:02

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Politics: Alaska Senate: Early write-in counts favor Lisa Murkowski

  • 98% of write-in votes favor Lisa Murkowski so far source
  • » And despite Joe Miller’s wishes: Murkowski misspellings are being allowed, making it so that she’s even more likely to win when all the votes are counted. It’s going to take five days to count every single one of the write-in votes.
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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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31 Oct 2010 20:58

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Politics, U.S.: Palin: ABC reporters are “corrupt bastards”

  • In this clip, Sarah Palin charges ABC affiliates in Alaska with “corruption,” claiming that they “conspired to make up stories about Joe Miller.” According to her, reporters at a recent Miller rally attempted to find a child molester in the crowd in order to discredit Miller and his supporters. A tape of has been released, and Palin “can’t wait until it busts out all over the nation.” source
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29 Oct 2010 21:26

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Politics: Breitbart blog injects more fun into AK Senate race

  • If ya can’t beat ’em, drown ’em in fake candidates. After defeating Lisa Murkowski in the primary, Joe Miller was a shoe-in to be the next Senator from Alaska. But then Murkowski announced a write-in campaign, and started gaining traction in the polls. So, Miller supporters did what any rational base would do: they flooded the list of write-in candidates (provided to voters at the polls) with as many names as possible, so that Murkowski’s name would be harder to spot. The effort, which originated on Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Government” blog, worked, and now there are over 100 “official” write-in candidates (many of them readers of “Big Government”). This race just gets better and better. source
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19 Oct 2010 00:07

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Politics: Max Headroom: Sorry we’re late; here’s an awesome soap opera

  • A C-Span telenovelaWe’re sure Jonah Goldberg’s new book is great, but around the 1:45 mark, he’ll be upstaged by some lovers’ dissent within his panel. Todd Seavey and Helen Rittelmeyer used to date. They don’t anymore, and Todd clearly has some issues with that. It’s easily the best thing ever aired on C-Span.
  • Bathroom buddies? Joe Miller was on Fox News today telling his side of the whole blogger-arrest incident. He lets out a piece of info in this Neil Cavuto interview which he hadn’t mentioned before – which is that the Alaska Dispatch co-founder followed Miller into the bathroom. He was attracted by the beard.
  • ghost of Spitzer’s pastWe were on the hunt for some good “Parker Spitzer” clips, but then managed to notice the new Spitzer doc coming out next month. Just in time for the one-month mark of the new CNN show! Oh yeah, remember when Seth mentioned the political operative with the Nixon tattoo? He’s in this clip. With the tattoo.
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18 Oct 2010 15:30

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Politics, U.S.: Joe Miller bleeding support in Alaska

  • 7% decrease in Joe Miller’s support over last month source
  • » For a while, Joe Miller had it in the bag. But things have changed. It started when incumbent Lisa Murkowski, having lost the Republican primary to Miller, announced that she’d run a write-in campaign. Polls then began showing erosion of Miller’s popularity, with his negatives increasing by 6% in the last month. Then, news broke last night that Miller’s private security detail handcuffed and detained a reporter at a town hall meeting. Now, Nate Silver says that “any ordering of the top three candidates is possible.” This is a race to watch on November 2nd.
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18 Oct 2010 10:20

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Politics: Annoyed Joe Miller has guards detain Alaska Dispatch founder

  • Hey Joe Miller, what you got to hide? You seem a little wary of talking to reporters for some reason, even to the point where you had a bunch of security guards detain the owner of a news site, who you discount as a “liberal blogger.” Why? What is the gain in it for you? It makes you seem like kind of a jerk. “While I’ve gotten used to the blog Alaska Dispatch‘s assault on me and my family, I never thought that it would lead to a physical assault,” you say. Yeah, yeah. Fact of the matter is, you just had your cronies detain a legitimate member of the online press because he annoyed you. source
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11 Oct 2010 19:28

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Politics: The never-ending foibles of Joe Miller

  • then Miller said at a town hall meeting last week that he supports repealing the 17th Amendment, which allows voters (rather than state legislators) to elect Senators .
  • now Miller now says that amending the constitution isn’t “a practical solution,” and blames Lisa Murkowski for making him say what he said. Or something. source
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