Posted on 11/02/2004 9:15:16 AM PST by crushkerry
For info purposes, this was posted by Patrick Hynes, a GOP campaign consultant, proprietor of crushkerry.com and former political director of the New Hampshire State GOP Committee
Alaska Update. The predominant thinking on the US Senate race in Alaska was that Sen. Lisa Murkowski was going to lose and the Democrats would pick up the seat. Dem nominee Tony Knowles is popular and has run a good campaign. But I just spoke to the pollster on the race who told me the last three nights of tracking had Murkowski taking and holding onto a lead. Keeping Alaska is great news and would constitute a (probable) strong majority in the Senate. (12:05 PM)
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FWIW, my polling place was neighborhood fuzzy wuzzy Unitarian Universialist non church church bldg. No real lines, but plenty of coming and going. Was quite early when I was there.
Winning the Alaska race would be unbelievable!
Right now, I have the Senate for the GOP, with a total of 54 seats....and I had wrote of Alaska as a loss.
God, I hope. Knowles bothers me. He is a phony moderate.
If we can manage 58 seats (we can't) then the Judiciary committee should be 11-8 instead of 10-9. (I don't know if the Senate does proportional committees.)
It was all about ANWR...Dems win..it NEVER gets to the Senate floor.. I think a lot of Alaskans were really pissed at the nepotism thing...but they held their noses, for their own benefit..
WHAT NEPOTISM??????
Was MS.Murkowski, or WAS SHE NOT, a Three term representative, currently serving as House Majority Leader?
Or should Reverse nepotism have disqualified her?
It's perception..and it didn't pass the smell test. He runs for governor, wins..steps down as senator, and appoints his daughter to the seat...what he shoudl have done, and IMHO, what would have worked best for her, was to name someone to fill the seat who would NOT run this year...she could have run for the House again, and announced that she'd be runnign for the Senate this year..
Look, I'm NOT arguing with you.... I hope she wins..we need her, and she's by far the BEST looking Babe in the Senate to boot..
I could understand it, if he appointed her from the Business world, or if she was an obscure Back Bencher, but she didnt get appointed to the House, or Majority leader.
It was a flaw in her campaign to not address that vigorously early on.
OK..we concur...
As for the nepotism thing, I have heard some bitching about it, but it's generally been from Godless leftists that think everything is Bush's or a Republicans fault. Calmer thinking was just sort of dazed by the brazeness and then got on with supporting Lisa. Yes hobbes, Lisa's got a resume, but she also flat out got handed a US Senate seat from her daddy. It's the ol appearance of impropriety is enough to make you wonder thing.
Yes, but that was Frank. Lisa has been doing just fine for herself.
Leaving work right now to vote for Lisa and GW.
FYI..Bil, Hillary, and Chelsea just voted here in Chappaqua...with my wife and I..that's the 5 votes for Bush in this precinct..
LOL!
Actually, Murkowski's surge has more to do with saving Ted Steven's majority position in the Senate rather than ANWR. Someone in the Knowles camp started a dirty trick phone bank late last night contacting both pro-choice and pro-life folks with recorded and opposite messages purportedly from from the Murkowski camp. Someone should be expecting to get into the US prison system rather than the US Senate. Look for a Murkowski win in a relatively close race.
Thanks..you obviously know far more than I do about the race, but I alwys figured all she had to do was tie Knowles to Daschle/Kennedy, et al, and the Dems refusal to bring up ANWR when then had the majority, and their willingness to kill the energy bill..ANWR drilling enjoys what, a 90% approval rate in Alaska..I hope she wins..I think she will, because people usually dont' vote AGAINST their economic interests..
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