On Twitter, described Palin as a potential "miracle on ice."
"Keeping our fingers crossed, dry powder, prayers up," he wrote online.
With all but nine of the 438 reports on the state fair, attorney Joe Miller, a virtual unknown until Palin supported his candidacy in June 1960 led by Murkowski votes.
The final result may depend on thousands of absentee ballots not be counted until next week at the earliest. According to the Anchorage Daily News, the state elections division had received 16,000 absentee ballot applications, 7,600 of whom had been returned by late Monday.
In 2008, narrowly beating Republican Rep. Don Young in the primary school of the State Congress took more than three weeks to become certified. In the general election in November, initial advantage for the Republican Senator Ted Stevens of 3,000 votes disappeared as final ballots are distributed throughout the state.
Murkowski, appointed to the Senate in 2002 by his father and elected to a full term in 2004 he made a significant financial advantage and the traditional advantage of incumbency in the race, serving as ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Resources Natural.
But Miller does not just help you enjoy Palin, but former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and the Tea Party Express Group, which helped fuel another relative unknown, Sharron Angle, for the Republican nomination for Senate in Nevada.
During the campaign, Miller had argued that Murkowski's voting record in Washington deny the conservative image he presented in Alaska. Although the state to distance has been historically dependent on federal resources, Miller has argued that the national debt is growing evidence the need for change.
"It's a new political era in Alaska," he said in an interview last week. "We depend on federal government transfers, and if the federal government goes bankrupt, Alaska will be the hardest hit."
If lead Miller argues, Murkowski became the third senator whose reelection effort holder not live beyond the primary. Pennsylvania Democrats rejected Sen. Arlen Specter in May, then spent parit, Utah Sen. Bob Bennett did not even qualify for the vote in the Republican state convention.
Scott McAdams, mayor of the city of Sitka, won the presidential nomination of the Senate.
Palin did not campaign actively with Miller, but sent support on Facebook and Twitter and recorded a telephone message later in his name.
"He has the backbone to confront radical agenda of Obama. By contrast, Lisa Murkowski voted with Democrats more than any Republican to run for reelection this year," he said.
Miller also benefited from a measure on the ballot Tuesday requiring parental notification when individuals aged 17 or younger seeking an abortion. Ballot Measure 2 passed with 55% of the vote after spending $ 1 million combined in opposite sides of the debate.
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