The Alaska Senate race grew more interesting Friday night as GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced she is launching a write-in campaign for re-election — a last-ditch effort to retain the seat she has held since being appointed by her father, former Gov. Frank Murkowski, in 2002. The announcement sets up a three-way race between Murkowski, Democrat Scott McAdams and Republican Joe Miller, who defeated Murkowski in the Aug. 24 primary by 2,006 votes and has the full support of the Senate Republican leadership. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) made clear that the Senate GOP Conference has moved beyond the primary fight and embraced Miller. But Murkowski was defiant. “Alaskans deserve a fighter in the United States Senate who will always stand up for Alaska, who understands our great potential and has the experience, the respect and the seniority to accomplish that,” she said. “I am that Senator.” Murkowski took a shot at Sarah Palin (R), saying she, not the former governor, is “one Republican woman who won’t quit on Alaska.”...more The late Strom Thurmond is the only Senator to be elected by write-in (1954).
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The Murkowski family is to Alaska what the Hogg family was to Hazzard County. Obviously a vindictive lot, as we saw from the backdoor savaging of Sarah Palin, which was mostly due to her having the gall to run against the Senator's father for the governorship. You all do realize that most of that bull thrown at her came from the establishment GOP up there, right?
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