Sorry, this is bad history. Murkowski was subsequently forced to eat humble pie and pick from the original list after all. The only alternative would have been to force a ballot to change the Alaskan constitution. There was no public cry for such a chnage then and there is none now. Besides, strictly speaking, neither ‘pro-life’ nor ‘pro-abortion’ should not be a litmus test. Rather, the question is, will the candidate interpret Alaska’s constitution according to original intent, or are they likely to ‘actively legislate from the bench’. Governor Palin, by all accounts requested detailed information on both candidates and made the optimal decision in the circumstances.
Ya, guess you have to work the best you can with the cards that get deldt.
Just too many libs in Alaska nowadays