Posted on 08/25/2010 12:44:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In a shocking upset, Joe Miller is the winner of the Alaska Senate primary if the current vote projection holds for the Republican primary election. With half of the precincts reporting, Miller holds a slight 51.8 to 48.2% lead over the GOP incumbent senator. The vote lead has been consistent during the early counting and even increased slightly as more precincts have been counted in Alaska.
Joe Miller has been a heavy underdog in pre-election polls, trailing the senator by 20-30 points. Nobody thought this race would be close.
In fact, the mainstream media has been using the Alaska primary challenge from Miller as evidence that Sarah Palins endorsements are not all that useful. Palin endorsed Joe Miller several weeks ago. The press assumed that Lisa would beat Miller easily as the polls predicted, which fed a certain group-think that is comforting to liberals.
Even if the sitting senator manages to come back from the vote deficit, any victory for her will be razor thin. And that is appearing more and more unlikely as the evening progresses. In reality Palin is the most powerful voice in politics today. Her endorsements generate interest, campaign donations, grassroots support, and results at the ballot box.
The meme that Palin endorsements are irrelevant began surfacing in early August and became an oft repeated mantra by liberal television commentators in the mainstream media. If the Alaska senate results hold up for Joe Miller, the former governor of Alaska will have shut them up permanently.
Right Pundits will stay up late to give you the final Alaska primary results for Joe Miller just as soon as we can make an early call officially. We are almost there. Even as this brief piece was written, Joe Miller extended his lead slightly while more precincts in the state were counted. The winner of the Alaska primary appears to be Joe Miller, and Sarah Power will be undeniable even to her critics. We will make the call official soon, assuming it is warranted.
So what is known about Joe Millers biography? He has eight kids and a game wife named Kathleen Miller. He grew up in Kansas but moved west to Alaska at the age of 16. He holds a law degree and various positions of local authority in the judiciary, including that of U.S. Magistrate Judge in Fairbanks Alaska. He earned a Bronze Star for bravery in the Gulf War after graduating high in his class from West Point.
What an election result! Reader comments welcome.
bttt
ADN insists that no announcement will be made until ALL THE ABSENTEES are counted.
What is a game wife?
They could try and steal this, but the math says, game over.
As soon as any trend is in around 20%, you can call it. It will never deviate from those numbers. Absentees would have to reverse the trend and break 2 to 1 for LM. And that won’t happen, if it “does” happen, it did not “really” happen and the election was stolen. Ever a possibility, but, at that point, you fight and you will find the fraud. Too many times the good guy gives up. And we get a Daschle or a Franken.
short night, hey Eska?.....me too.....thx for your perspective last night...
ahhh,thanks for the update.
Not I!
We will raise the money needed and we will see her sworn in.
On that excellent thought, I’m taking to my lovely couch.
I’ve extracted the promise to awaken me when Joe Miller’s win is announced.
!!!
If you’re still there, take a look at this:
Winners and losers: The August 24 primary edition (#1: Sarah Palin)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2577182/posts
Whoa.....
?Great news though!
Still more absentee ballots to count than the difference between the two candidates, but Murkowski would need to hve the vast bulk of them to win, it would seem.
Over a guy named Sean Parnell, I believe. I wonder what ever happened to him.
Over a guy named Sean Parnell, I believe. I wonder what ever happened to him.
I looked. Hater infested. I’m taking a pass.
Yep, all nighter.
Listening to Rush now.
Ordered lunch.
That’ll put me to sleep.
Yes, and FWIW, the pundit and so-called expert, Larry Sabato, (who said Lisa was going to win handily) now says that she cannot win -— she’d have to sweep the absentees — and that’s not possible.
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