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***UPDATE*** NBC News has now declared Lisa Murkowski the apparent winner in the Alaska Senate race.
After a two-week count of write-in ballots, the Alaska Senate race has been called for incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski.
Murkowski, who defeated Tea Party challenger Joe Miller, will be the first write-in candidate to win election to the Senate since South Carolina's Strom Thurmond in 1954.
She opted to launch the write-in campaign after Miller defeated her in the state's Aug. 24 Republican primary.
From the AP:
Murkowski has a lead of about 10,000 votes, a total that includes 8,153 ballots in which Miller observers challenged over things like misspellings, extra words or legibility issues.
It was not immediately clear how Miller will proceed. He and his advisers have vowed to take legal action over what they contend is an unfair tally in Murkowski's favor, but Miller has maintained he'll stop fighting if the math doesn't work in his favor.
Officials say they have about 700 votes left to count.
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All you Sarah haters need to get a life!
We don't hate Sarah Palin.
In fact we love her
She was FABULOUS in Larry Flynt's classic, "Whose Nailin Paylin?"
And we wonder why the polititians can't get along? The problem is with the whole system and being to pass laws any time they want. One of the things that Obama promised was transparancy and I haven't seen too much of that. They shouldn't be able to pass a major law without putting it to a vote of the american people. They have forgotten that they work for us and not for the major companies that pad their pockets so they will pass legistlation that favors their business. Term limits and being held accountable is a good step in the right direction. Most dems and repubs are the same they are in there for their own greedy reasons they don't care for the american people.
Good on you Lisa! Show Sarah Palin what it means to be a REAL ALASKAN! Not a made up phony like Sarah and her "yes dear, husband" Now maybe Alaska can get down to business!
I'm behind the changes the Tea Party will bring to DC---smaller government, fiscal sanity, constitutionalism---but there's something about Miller's goons "arresting" a reporter that makes me doubt his devotion to liberty. Ditto the thugs who tackled and stomped that protestor outside Rand Paul's debate...though Paul immediately tossed the stomper out on his ear and apologized, while Miller was mum. (Yeah, Limbaugh, the stomper gently pushed her to the pavement by resting his foot on her shoulder. Or maybe she head-butted him on the sole of his foot? Mussolini's brownshirts would have been proud!) www.newsprism.com
newsprism, this is tony romo.
lemee tell ya, getting your shoulder stomped is just as bad!!!!!
Haaa....and she was a write-in candidate!!! Joe Miller was once asked if he would support Sarah Palin if she ran for president. He hemmed and hawed, but did not answer the question. Hmmm, talk about biting the hand that fed you!!
JeezLouise...can'tya just bet this will make the mamma grizzly mean and ugly. Please let this be evidence that the conservative and tea party idiots are just crazy!
You betcha
Blame it on the lame stream media doncha know...
Unreal... a write-in-vote canditate wins to be a US senator.
That Palin sure is bad news in politics...no doubt about that! LMAO
And at least you know Murkowski supporters can write.
LOL!!
Yea a write in canditate won and that hasn't happened since South Carolina's Strom Thurmond in 1954. And we all know how well that was don't we?
Oh, Joe, there you go... AWAY!
Looks like a lot here are filled with fear and jealousy...Interesting....
Fear and Jealousy of what??? A loser of a Tea Party candidate and his handler? There are some decent Tea Party people, but this guy was not one of them. So, no, no jealousy here.
What exactly would they be jealous of? He lost. What else is there?
From the land of Pailin, reason and sanity. Goes to show you that someone can still say to hell with the greased political machine and simply ask for the peoples vote. As "Enlightened" said, I also cannot beleive I am happy that a Republican won, but in the end, the PEOPLE of Alaska won. Way to go girl. It's about time someone with a pair went to Washington.
Say hell to the greased political machine? The Murkowski's ARE the greased political machine in AK! Doh!!!
I'm afraid Miller may REFUDIATE the whole election!
Uh oh!
Sarah Palin's political career may be finished.
Well, at least she still has a future as a porn star!
Over Murkowski - I highly doubt that, Murkowski's own party doesn't support her, oh that's right she doesn't have a party...
Joe Miller doesn't have a party either.
Kim, she may not have a party, but she has Alaska.
Kim, Kim, Kim. The Tea-vangelicals also lack a party. Perhaps y'all should grow a couple of bags and form yer own party intead of leaching off the Republicans. Sorry Joe's loss is so embarassing for you.
I am not a republican in any sense of the word, but I am happy that Murkowski won. Congrats to her!
It sends a serious message about Sarah Palin....the people who know her best have little respect for her judgement. They may still be smarting from the way she deserted her constituency in favor of $$$$. Let her serve Alaska as a tour guide at 1 million per episode rather than speak for them from an elected office.
Socialism cannot be defeated though moderation!! It needs to completely defeated!! Wake up America!! You are getting hijacked!!
So you are one of those "second amendment option" types, pray tell?
What socialism might you be talking about Indiana? The stuff that Beck spews about, or would that be Rush? Speaking of hijacked, wow.
Indiana, your brain was hijacked.
Recently read several articles about how Liberals do tend to sway in a socialist factor. But; I have to say that it is way better than the way Conservatives are Rush-ing (no pun intended) faster and faster into Fascism. Label if you want but look in the mirror before you throw stones in your glass house!
I would never imagine that I would be happy for the Republican to win, but I am happy for Lisa. People don't like extreme. Republicans that hold it together will be in favor on both sides. And please, conservatives that runes away from media (it looks bad, it smells bad and this is not the way to go if you want to win).
Way to GO Lisa!!! Take that Sarah...go smoke your stash of soggy AK teabugs!!!
Nothing like electing a woman who lied openly saying if Joe beat her she would quit. Typical lying politician. Shes no better than obama
She changed her mind. BFD. Get over it.
Absolutely, and for those who say she changed her mind - get over it... What an absolute joke.
It seems pretty simple. Murkowski heard the tripe spilling from Millers mouth and did what she thought was best for Alaska.
While I like seeing the Tea Party lose as much as the next guy, why are you celebrating a Murkowski victory? She originally only became senator because of her daddy governor, she was against any regulation against big oil even in the wake of the BP mess (talk about poor judgment!)... and she's perhaps the single most shrill member of the senate. This was a lose-lose.
Joe we never could have taken that seat. But we saw Palin go down in flames and land on her huge, size 46 rear.
That's a win.
So we had a "win-lose."
Not as good as a "win-win," but not a "lose-lose". either.
She is still better than Miller would have been. At least she has some brains, and doesn't need a shave.
@ Tom... while I understand your sentiment, that would be a loss-bigger loss, not a win-loss. I know you all hate Palin (I'm no fan myself), but you're exchanging a clueless guy who would be completely marginalized in the Senate, would have had no power except a Yes or No vote, in a "party" which will essentially dissolve over the next few years, for a grade-A bioootch who is pure establishment politics, completely typifies and fights tooth-and-nail for the GOP stance on energy deregulation, and WILL have power in the new Senate.
Seriously, go watch her on YouTube and tell me you'd be jazzed to have her as a senator. Maybe she has a brain, but she's as corrupt as they come. And she'll have power.
Yeah, the Tea Party sucks, but they'll be powerless in the face of political reality, so why libs get all up in arms about them is beyond me. She will not be powerless. Be careful what you wish for.
Well, she is a Republican, so why wouldn't see vote for big oil....If you are a Democrat, see you in 2012. I'll be right beside you getting rid of the Republicans. It will be a lot easier for us in 2012.
Joe
So you are saying Miller was such a complete moron we would have been better off with him than Murkowski because he would point a gun and blown his own head off? (Figuratively, I mean. With these Tea Party idiots, you never know when they are serious about weapons!).
Look, that might be correct. It's always hard to tell which of two adversaries would be the lesser evil.
In the final analysis, Alaska was, is, and probably will remain, a Republican seat. I can't get excited about what kind of Republican holds it - they are all worthless, if you ask me.
Maybe we'll get lucky and Alaska and Texas will both secede.
But she can still get her multitude of clueless fans to vote for Bristol on DWTS and turn what was a decent talent show into a FRAUD. I predict that show will soon end because SP has effectively destroyed it by taking away it's credibility. Bristol wasn't the under-dog. Take away under ........
I have never been one to believe in silly religion, but after this, I might re-think my position. I was totally losing faith in the American public and poor Alaskan voters. Thanks for renewing my faith in humanity
Maybe she should have worked harder the first time, now that she's back in, hopefully she'll appreciate her position a little more, and actually do something!
She worked hard enough. She went along with some of Obama's plans and it ticked off the far right. That is the only reason she lost the primary.
The amazing part of this to me is that this woman was defeated in the primaries, and then rose above it, submitted herself as a write-in, and WON in spite of all the barriers put in place by the tea-partiers. Amazing. Palin would have everyone think that all of Alaska is like her - thankfully they are not. There is hope that the radicals (on either side) will not prevail. Now, we need to see those elected do what they complained that the Obama administration had not done - just to keep it "fair", they have less than 2 years to make all of us happy. I'm excited!
and we should start holding them all to the same standards. Do your job or you will be replaced. Enough of career polititians. This wasn't to make them rich but most of them are and we are the ones that made them that way?
Hell yeah! F-Palin (I wouldn't mind, but you know what I mean)!
I now understand she will teach the GOP a lesson and vote with the Dems !!!!