{"id":13076,"date":"2010-09-01T23:02:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T04:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13076"},"modified":"2010-09-01T23:02:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T04:02:07","slug":"millers-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13076","title":{"rendered":"Miller’s Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alaska’s GOP Senate nominee starts his quest to ask voters to “look into your heart”.<\/a>\u00a0 Senate Democrats may start asking contributors to look into their wallets.<\/p>\n

It had all the looks of an epic recount slugfest.\u00a0 Narrow margin of victory.\u00a0 A near blood fued between the waring factions.\u00a0 Lawyers from Washington.\u00a0 Instead, Alaska’s GOP primary battle royale ended with a whimper, not a bang<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska conceded late Tuesday in her Republican primary race to Joe Miller, a lawyer<\/span> from Fairbanks backed by Tea Party activists, Sarah Palin<\/span> and other conservatives…<\/p>\n

Ms. Murkowski\u2019s concession followed the counting of about 16,000 additional ballots on Tuesday, which left Mr. Miller with a lead of about 1,469 votes out of about 103,000 cast. Several thousand more votes were to be counted on Friday but the trend suggested Ms. Murkowski would not gain enough ground to win.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite fumbling her re-election bid worse than Joe Pisarcik <\/a>and entertaining a variety of ways to get onto the November ballot, Lisa Murkowski decided – at least for the moment – not to further risk the odds of a Republican holding her seat come November.\u00a0 That hasn’t stopped Murkowski from sidestepping an endorsement<\/a>\u00a0of her\u00a0primary b\u00eate noire<\/em>.\u00a0 And from the looks of yet another early poll, Joe Miller could use the support as Rasmussen has Democrat Scott McAdams within 6%<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rasmussen Alaska Senatorial Survey<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n