Murkowski confident as tally grows

The Fix: The pessimistic public (and what it means)
1. Americans may have put Republicans back in charge of the House and strengthened the party's hand in the Senate in the 2010 Elections but there is little excitement about the results or optimism for the future, according to a new Pew poll. Less than half -- 48 percent -- described themselves as "happy" that Republicans took over the House while 34 percent said they were "unhappy" about the power change. Those numbers compare very unfavorably to how people felt when Democ...

Murkowski keeps lead in vote count (Politico)
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski continued a strong rate of success Friday as election officials finished counting more than two-thirds of the write-in ballots in the state’s Senate race. Murkowski won more than 90 percent of those write-in ballots outright, plus another 7.6 percent that were challenged but were still counted. Those ballots are set aside for further review pending a Court decision due next week. Nonetheless, if Murkowski continues winning at least 90 percent of the write-in vo...

Murkowski Closes in on Alaska Senate Win
(FOXNews.com) - Some of the fight seems to be leaving Joe Miller’s ballot counting challenge in Alaska. The body language of the Miller observers is telling, FOXNews.com reported Friday. On the third day of counting write-in votes in the still-undecided Senate race between Republican nominee Joe Miller and Senator Lisa Murkowski, there were fewer challenges made to votes where Murkowski’s name was spelled correctly. Over the first two days of counting, Miller observers were challengi...

Alaska attacks forge on
(CNN) - Incumbent Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who launched a write-in campaign for re-election after losing the Republican Primary, believes the race in Alaska will be closer to resolution by the end of this weekend but added that her opponent, Tea Party-backed Republican Joe Miller, is working to "disenfranchise" voters. Miller Vote-count observers are challenging ballots that misspell the senator's name - or, in some cases, spell it correctly but aren't written clearly. "When you make ch...

Alaska Senate Race Still Unclear
By Vauhini Vara As Election workers continued to pore over write-in Ballots in Alaska’s Senate race, it remained unclear Friday whether Sen. Lisa Murkowski had enough uncontested votes to keep her seat without a court battle. Ms. Murkowski ran a write-in campaign after losing to Joe Miller, a Tea-party favorite, in the Republican Primary in August. Write-in Ballots have totaled 40.2% of the vote, compared with 35.3% for Mr. Miller and 23.4% for Democrat Scott McAdams. In the rainy state capital...

Murkowski Closes in on Alaska Senate Win
(FOXNews.com) - Some of the fight seems to be leaving Joe Miller’s ballot counting challenge in Alaska. The body language of the Miller observers is telling, FOXNews.com reported Friday. On the third day of counting write-in votes in the still-undecided Senate race between Republican nominee Joe Miller and Senator Lisa Murkowski, there were fewer challenges made to votes where Murkowski’s name was spelled correctly. Over the first two days of counting, Miller observers were challengi...

It is beginning to look a lot like Murkowski
The counting of the Alaska write in ballots is underway and thus far it looks like Lisa Murkowski’s lead will hold. I have to say Joe Miller’s attempts to cut down that vote are not looking very positive to me. Challenging slight misspellings or other picayune mistakes doesn’t really fit the whole Tea Party feel to me. I think the big question now is just how much of team player will Lisa Murkowski be when she wins. If the story below is any indication, I think Re...

Murkowski appears to have lead in Alaska vote count
JUNEAU, Alaska - Sen. Lisa Murkowski appeared to have a solid lead Thursday in this state's closely watched Senate contest, despite aggressive attempts by her opponent's campaign to disqualify as many write-in ballots as possible. This Story Alaska's Elections frontier Murkowski appears to have lead in Alaska Vote Count In Alaska, Murkowski isn't the only spelling that Counts Counting Votes in Alaska Alaska Senate race could hinge on spelling Opinion: The GOP's Palin paradox Counting Votes in...

Sarah Palin fighting for the cause. Contributes to Joe Miller’s recount effort
While most people are already giving up on Joe Miller, calling it a “lost cause” there are people like Sarah Palin who is putting principle over Party. Dan Riehl and Jedidiah Bila wrote about this very concept today. Sarah Palin is putting her money where her mouth is, and I greatly appreciate her fighting for the cause, and for Miller. Those who are in the Conservative Movement must make the effort to bring about change. You win some, you lose some. If last Tuesday’s election ...

Murkowski: DeMint will have to make first move for 'making up'
If Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is interested in apologizing to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), he'll have to make the first move, Murkowski said Friday. The Alaska senator, who appears poised to win Reelection as a write-in GOP Candidate for Senate, suggested she's not eager to reach out to DeMint, who backed her challenger Joe Miller in the Alaska Senate race. RELATED ARTICLES Murkowski halfway to victory DeMint, who has said he and Murkowski might have "some making up to do" if she wins reele...

Alaska Senate Race
The country’s last Undecided Senate race could depend on a Legal Battle. Senator Lisa Murkowski now seems likely to pull off an unlikely victory as a write-in Candidate, after having been ousted by Tea party Candidate Joe Miller in a Republican Primary in August. Alaska residents cast more than 92,500 write-in Ballots, about 40 percent of all votes.  Alaska Election officials have begun to scrutinize and count all 92,500 write-in votes, about 11,000 more votes than were cast for Joe M...

Murkowski: If DeMint Wants To Make Up, Hell Have To Make First Move
Arrogant piece of RINO feces from Hell… (The Hill) - If Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is interested in apologizing to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), he’ll have to make the first move, Murkowski said Friday. The Alaska senator, who appears poised to win Reelection as a write-in GOP Candidate for Senate, suggested she’s not eager to reach out to DeMint, who backed her challenger Joe Miller in the Alaska Senate race. DeMint, who has said he and Murkowski might have “som...

Murkowski Confident as Write-in Tally Grows
Alaska Elections officials have reviewed almost half of the write-in ballots with nearly 98% of them cast for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Achorage Daily News reports. "The Murkowski campaign is acting confident of victory and is accusing Joe Miller of taking 'desperate' measures to try to win." Nate Silver: "Miller's observers are surely aware of the mathematics behind the ballot-counting process, and it is possible that they are operating on what amounts to a quota to challenge at least as many...

Miller Strategist Raises Questions of Voter Fraud
Nov. 11: Floyd Brown, a Strategist for Joe Miller Campaign is shown wearing a Lisa Murkowski Campaign wrist band during a news Conference in Juneau, Alaska. JUNEAU, Alaska -- A new Strategist for Joe Miller's Campaign raised the specter of Voter suppression and Fraud in the Alaska Senate race, but offered little proof to back up those claims Thursday. Floyd Brown, who was behind the infamous Willie Horton ads during the 1988 Presidential Campaign, said a Voter Fraud hot line has been set up for ...

M-u-r-k-o-w-s-k-i
Sen. Lisa Murkowski is well on her way to pulling off a stunning upset victory in the Alaska Senate race after one day of counting write-in votes, despite Republican nominee Joe Miller’s Legal Challenges to the process. Murkowski took nearly 98 percent of the 19,203 write-in ballots counted Wednesday, with more than 8 percent of those awarded to her after an initial Challenge by Miller over voters’ spelling abilities was thrown out. ...Roll Call Joe Miller was in big trouble already, th...

How strong is Joe Miller's argument against the Leeza Markovsky vote?
By Richard L. HasenPosted Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, at 6:04 PM ET Republican Senate Candidate Joe MillerSince the 2000 Florida debacle of Bush v. Gore, in which the United States Supreme Court decided the fate of the presidency after a razor-thin vote difference between George W. Bush and Al Gore, Candidates in close Election contests have lawyered up. Rates of Election litigation have more than doubled in the last decade. The big Election contest in 2008 was the U.S. Senate race between Al Frank...

Voter intimidation alleged in Alaska Senate race - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Juneau, Alaska — With the count of write-in Ballots trending heavily toward Lisa Murkowski in the U.S. Senate race, the Campaign of Republican nominee Joe Miller announced Thursday it would file suit to gain access to precinct Voter records in an attempt to track down what Campaign officials said were instances of voting irregularities. Conservative Political Consultant Floyd Brown, acting as what he called a "volunteer Strategist" for Miller, said the Campaign had opened a ...

Joe Miller Hires Floyd Brown, Man Behind Infamous Willie Horton Ad, Citizen United, Impeach Obama Site
NEW YORK -- Republican Joe Miller has hired a Controversial political hand to help him beat back a win by Incumbent Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Senate election: Floyd Brown, the man behind the infamous Willie Horton ad during the 1988 Presidential Campaign, who also founded Citizens United and runs a site dedicated to impeaching President Obama. On Thursday, Brown raised the possibility of voter Fraud and suppression, although according to the Associated Press, he offered basically no proof ...

Is Joe Miller Committing Political Suicide?
The Republican Candidate for Senate Alaska still has a bright future if he doesn’t destroy it by fighting Lisa Murkowski over every write-in ballot. Shushannah Walshe on how he’s hurting his reputation for a likely lost cause....

With write-in counting done for the day, Murkowski's lead holds
This write-in vote for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, cast at Anchorage's Scenic Park Elementary School, was challenged by an observer for Joe Miller because the voter wrote in Murkowski's Party Affiliation. -- 62,434, or 90.2 percent, counted unchallenged for Murkowski. -- 5,291, or 7.6 percent, counted for Murkowski but challenged by the Miller Campaign. -- 1,047, or 1.5 percent, challenged by the Miller campaign and not counted for Murkowski. -- 424, or 0.6 percent, for write-in Candidates other than M...

Alaska Senate Race: Lisa Murkowski Slams Delay Of Game Tactics In Write-In Ballot Count Saga
JUNEAU, Alaska — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s Campaign on Thursday accused observers for rival Joe Miller of challenging properly cast write-in ballots in an effort to drag out the heated Alaska Senate race and “delay the inevitable.” Shortly after the second day of write-in ballot counting began, a Miller observer challenged a vote for Murkowski that appeared to have her name spelled and printed correctly, though the “L” in “Lisa” was in cursive han...

Judge Hearing Joe Millers Voter Disenfranchisement Lawsuit Recuses Because Of His Negative Opinion Of Miller
Earlier this week, Alaska GOP Senate Candidate Joe Miller — aka “Mr. Noun, Verb and Unconstitutional” — filed a Lawsuit seeking to disenfranchise write-in Candidate Lisa Murkowski’s voters who misspelled Murkowski’s name.  In an amusing twist, Miller’s Lawsuit was originally assigned to one of his former supervisors, a Federal Judge with a pretty low opinion of Joe Miller: The Federal Judge originally assigned to hear Joe Miller’s Lawsuit to cha...

Joe Miller: Alaska Election Officials Using 'Different Standard' for Lisa Murkowski
As the counting of write-in ballots continues in Alaska, Senate Candidate Joe Miller said Thursday that state election officials were using a "different standard" to judge votes for his opponent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Miller, who has sued to disqualify any apparent votes for Murkowski that misspelled her name, told ABC News that the state Division of Elections has "decided to change the approach" to the way it counts write-ins. The reason for the special treatment, according to Miller, could be ...

Murkowski: Jim DeMint will have to make first move for 'making up'
thehill.com If Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is interested in apologizing to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), he'll have to make the first move, Murkowski said Friday . The Alaska senator, who appears poised to win Reelection as a write-in GOP Candidate for Senate, suggested she's not eager to reach out to DeMint, who backed her challenger Joe Miller in the Alaska Senate race. DeMint, who has said he and Murkowski might have "some making up to do" if she wins Reelection, would have to act first . "...