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 Palin’s 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 Miller’s 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.
She only needs about 59 percent of outstanding votes. Unlikely, but still very much possible.
If the Democrats count them she will.
No. Not “possible”. If it does happen, you can almost prove fraud by that very deed itself. Math is like forensics. The trend held all night, only to break when it was needed? No “chance” of that happening. It MAKE occur, but not by “chance”. By design. Which is then fraud.
Sarah the giant killer?
You betcha!
Eat your hard, rotten hearts out MSM!
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:)
So a 3 point lead with the majority of the precincts counted is “razor thin?”
Hmmmmm
Math is not my subject.
Others have said it’s “highly unlikely to impossible” at this point.
US SENATOR (R) REP
Total
Number of Precincts 438
Precincts Reporting 429 97.9 %
Times Counted 90618/487456 18.6 %
Total Votes 89858
Miller, Joe
REP 45909 51.09%
Murkowski, Lisa REP
43949 48.91%
Perhaps so but fraud can and does happen.
See the file under Franken, Al.
I have no idea. Most of them are democrats.
Remember the ‘02 SD Senate race between Johnson and Thune? I crashed around 4a that night/morning, with Thune ahead by around 500 votes. Woke up a few hours later to see Johnson had won by @ 500, thanks to the votes that came in from the Indian reservations. It ain’t over till it’s over.
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