I’m as mystified as you are that so many didn’t vote for Miller. I don’t understand it either.
We have dumb voters in Alaska just as much as anywhere else.
It may be a red state but a large majority are really voting from the middle of the highway so to speak, plus by the nature of few and precious jobs combined with limited seasonal work people will vote for whoever promises more pork, more earmarks, more under the table construction bribes and of course more Federalized social programs.
Was Miller a bad candidate?
No he wasn’t, he is targeted just like Sarah Palin, they tried every trick they could to cast him in a bad image, from staging a security shuffle to now performing a Macarthy style witch hunt for lost e-mails. Digging for dirt and then throwing it up in the air hoping it makes him dirty.
Joe Miller earned all the right credentials, Iraq tanker vet, West Point grad, and a very conservative family Conservative. Basically the image of everything that the left despises. Lisa will back anything for popularity, including the Dream Act.
Obviously, neither of you have followed this...suggest you go do a search here at FR for Joe Miller and educate yourself...HINT: massive voter fraud by Murky...MASSIVE
I think some may have thought she has experience and seniority, why not vote for her? Also, the (minor, IMO) “scandals” that came out late in the campaign did not help him.