Senator Lisa Murkowski Lost To Joe

The final vote in Alaska are still being counted, but it seems almost certain that Joe Miller, a political novice Sarah Palin and promoted by the movement Tea Party, is to remove the session, Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary - the biggest surprise 2010 election year so far.

Unless an unlikely turn in absentee ballots uncounted, Murkowski lost the Republican nomination despite having one of the best known names in Alaska politics and largely spend more than its rival.


Palin has been celebrating the fall of Murkowski possible through Twitter, writing that the result was "a miracle on ice" and Twitter:


With 429 of 438 precincts reporting, the two were separated by only 1960 votes and Miller 45 909 votes (51%) 43 949 Murkowski (49%). A maximum of 16,000 postal votes are exceptional, with Murkowski they need to win maybe two thirds to overcome the advantage of Miller - if not impossible, but thinks it unlikely.

The clash comes because Miller, with little organization or financial support, Murkowski had followed by 62% to 30% in surveys conducted in mid-July. The same survey found that less than 50% of likely Republican voters had heard of Miller, while 98% said Murkowski.

But Miller had two guns in his favor. One is that he received a series of records of the Palin family, beginning with the father of Sarah Palin and her husband Todd and finally, the former governor and vice presidential candidate herself. The other was the promotion of a referendum, the ballot measure 2, which would require parents be notified before their teenage children aged 17 or younger received an abortion.

Miller told the Anchorage Daily News that he thought the ballot measure drew voters who supported him during Murkowski. "Proposition 2 supporters were those who support us, in large part," said Miller. "Frankly I think the pro-life vote is important."

If Murkowski will lurch to defeat, will be another loss for his family at the hands of Sarah Palin. Lisa Murkowski was first appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2002 by his father, Frank, who was then governor of Alaska. But after Frank Murkowski was dethroned by Palin in the 2006 Republican primary for governor, and there have been frosty relations between the two since then.

On another level, however, Palin may be a missed opportunity to duel. If Murkowski had been known to be vulnerable, then Sarah Palin could have for the job.
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