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Subscribe to RSSALASKA: The Anchorage Daily News: “U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is battling for her political life this morning against Republican primary challenger Joe Miller, the Tea Party-backed candidate who had a slim lead as ballots continued to be counted overnight.”
The AP: With 98 percent of precincts counted, Murkowski trailed political newcomer Joe Miller by 1,960 votes out of more than 91,000 counted. As many as 16,000 absentee votes, as well as an undetermined number of provisional or questioned ballots, remain to be counted.”
More from the Anchorage paper: “Miller credited the support of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for his lead. ‘I'm absolutely certain that was pivotal,’ he said.” Highlighting that family feud, Murkowski said of Palin as she waited at her campaign headquarters for results to come in: "I think she's out for her own self-interest. I don't think she's out for Alaska's interest.”
So what’s left to count? “Most of the precincts that hadn't reported were in rural areas, particularly Western Alaska including the regions around Bethel, Nome and Kotzebue, where paper ballots are counted by hand. Counting was to continue through the night, according to the Division of Elections. There were also some precincts yet to report in the Dillingham-Aleutians region and the university area of Fairbanks. But all those of tend to be Democratic-leaning areas where many independent voters might choose the Democratic primary ballot.”
When will we know? “The final results of the race won't be known for over a week. The Alaska Division of Elections said over 16,000 absentee ballots were requested and as of Monday night 7,600 had been returned. The first count of absentees will be next Tuesday and there will be two subsequent counts as the absentee votes trickle in on Sept. 3 and on Sept. 8.”
The AP: “Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski trailed her lesser-known conservative opponent Tuesday in a surprisingly tight race that was seen as a test of the political power of Sarah Palin and the tea party movement… Miller is a decorated Gulf War veteran backed by Palin and the Tea Party Express who sought to cast Murkowski as being too liberal and part of the problem in an out-of-control Washington. It is a campaign strategy that has helped oust other incumbents this year.”
Roll Call’s lead: “Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is in danger of becoming the seventh Member of Congress to lose a primary this year, as she trailed Republican challenger Joe Miller in Tuesday’s contest.”
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Listen my friends and make no mistake on these insights concerning the American Right… they are wrong.
They are not only wrong, they are confused cattle that know nothing other than chewing the cud.
Let’s take the young Levi Johnson for example:
I’m quite certain that he is serious about his chances of being elected to the mayoral office of Wasilla. He is so certain that he has filed the paperwork to run for said office. But here’s the big thing, the residents of Wasilla will likely elect this young man, someone that has no idea what politics is about, even in a small town like Wasilla. But the short sighted residents do not figure anything other than his name is attached to Sarah Palin and in spite of the fact that she turned her back on the state of Alaska, they still see her as the best thing since sliced bread.
I pity the Republican party and the TEA baggers that they drag around by the neck. TEA baggers that allow the heads of their states to “place their boot heels on their necks” deserve what they elect.
Another example is the soon to be determined election of the Democrat that will unseat the Republican TEA baggers. The hatred exhibited by the TEA baggers is overwhelming for even some of their own that has decided to break ranks from the dumbing down of America.
In short, Quayle said it best and I’m sure he speaks on the behalf of all TEA baggers, “My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.” But if you expect for them to say it them self you’ll be waiting for a looooooooooooooong time
Do you live in a bubble (a Progressive bubble). Give me a break! Anyone who has knowledge of current events (outside of the Huffington Post/MSNBC). Knows Levi Johnson is both an idiot and an idiot as part of a reality show (stunt) running for Major of Wassila. Anyone who thinks this is serious, or that he would win, is a mindless Progressive that believes everything they hear.
Well Dan G.
If he does win, what does that make you?
Yes, LouisJ
The Tea baggers moral compass is truly lacking. It's sad this witch from Wasilla flirts with the minds of people in this nation.
Beverly: Don't hold back your feelings. Let out those emotions.
Maybe Sarah can loan Levi that kid of hers, Trig, so he can drag him around under his arm like a broken little rag doll like Sarah did during the presidential campaign.
Sarah- how come we don't see little Trig in all the pictures of you hawking your latest book? Don't think sympathy will sell books, or what?
All the hatred for Palin, the Tea Party? Scared? You better be.
Coming in November!!!
Talk about closed minded, irrational, hate speech. Here you have it.
I though the Democrats were supposed to be open minded? Caring? Inclusive?
This Country deserves better.
So it isn't hate to say terrible things about POTUS or leaders in Congress but dare even hint at a negative thought about a god(dess) worshiped by the extreme right and we're scared? Please give us a break as it is hard to keep laughing so much. The country does deserve better and that is why main stream Republicans, Indipendants, and Democrats will shun the teabaggers and vote, begrudgingly in some cases, for the Democratic Party candidates this November.
Extremism has never gotten very far in America and I see no reason to expect that to change any time soon or in the distant future.
Democrats are inclusinve. Perhaps that is why the Democratic Party is the oldest and largest political party on this planet. If some of the teabaggers were to mend their ways and want to join us they would be welcome. We have right wingers (not extreme right), left wingers and centerists unlike the current Republican party which is mostly extremists which as caused many life long Republicans to leave the party and become Independants or Democrats. So keep up the good work, we in the largest and oldest political party in the world are willing to welcome more into our party even you, pal, even you if you mend your ways.
So it isn't hate speech when Beck or Limbaugh go on one of their tirades or when tea baggers lie, or the party of no shows their closed mindeness due to lack of cooperation to help solve the country's problems but let anyone even whisper something derrogatory about one of the uberright's gods, expose the truth or debunks some of the right's claims and it is hate speech. Explain the rationality of the teabaggers.
Fortunately Democrats care about everyone not like the extremists on the right who only care about themselves and the filthy rich. If they truly cared the Republicans would have supported health care for the less fortunate, they would extend unemployment benefits in these extrordinary times, support teachers, police, fire etc. who are losing jobs due to a bad economy brought on by an unfunded and very expensive war in a country that was no real threat to the US.
Of course Joe Miller went to West Point and earned a law degree from Yale -- wouldn't that make him one of those "elitists" that the Tea Party is against?