Why the candidate of Sarah Palin and Tea Party Express is losing in Alaska
Murkowski in close contest for Alaska Senate
By BECKY BOHRER - Associated Press Writer
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski trailed her lesser-known conservative opponent Tuesday in a surprisingly tight race that was seen as a test of the political power of Sarah Palin and the tea party movement.
Joe Miller held a nearly 2,900-vote lead with two-thirds of precincts reporting as he looked to pull off one of the biggest political upsets of the year. Miller had 51.7 percent of the vote, compared with 48.2 percent for Murkowski.
Miller is a decorated Gulf War veteran backed by Palin and the Tea Party Express who sought to cast Murkowski as being too liberal and part of the problem in an out-of-control Washington. It is a campaign strategy that has helped oust other incumbents this year.
Read more: http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/08/25/1654244/murkowski-in-close-contest-for.html#ixzz0xbayY2Na
Multiple links in this thread with early obits for Miller and Palin by proxy. The urge to use her name and draw views back fired horribly on the various writers.
One interesting thing about it all is they (he writers) seem to think it a mistake to back someone that is ‘supposed’ to lose as though doing whats right matters not at all.