I respectfully disagree; this is Alaska after all, not Illinois or NY. They march to their own drummer up there.
It will take Miller about 5 seconds to card up her words in the debate about promising to respect the will of Alaska voters. I imagine he knew that very moment how the trends were going and wanted her on record for that very reason.
Some yes, some no. There is a reason Palin had to overcome corporate good-old-boy roadblocks to that gas pipeline.
We'll see.