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Alaska Sen. Murkowski embraces new outsider status with write-in campaign
Washington Post ^ | October 11, 2010 | Amy Gardner

Posted on 10/11/2010 7:51:25 AM PDT by Hawk720

IN ANCHORAGE "Fill in the bubble! Write in the name! Fill in the bubble! Write in the name! Fill in the bubble! Write in the name!"

So the chant went at a rally for Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski outside the public library here on a brisk recent Sunday - the soundtrack to one of the more striking and peculiar dramas of this year's fluky election season: the write-in campaign of a sitting U.S. senator.

After her loss in an August primary to tea-party-backed lawyer Joe Miller, Murkowski's senate career was assumed to be over. Another head-in-the-sand incumbent who just didn't get it.

But then, against all advice, including from fellow Republicans, Murkowski decided that she did get it - and was willing to fight for it.

Now, despite the hurdles in the way of a write-in victory, Murkowski is stirring passion and energy. It helps that the "entrenched incumbent" is suddenly the underdog, turning the year's throw-the-bums-out theme on its head. If she succeeds, Murkowski will join Miller, of all people, as one of the year's unlikeliest winners.

"It's kind of fun," Murkowski said during a recent campaign trip down Alaska's majestic Kenai Peninsula, where she went from a senior center to a cocktail reception to a firefighters convention with the urgency of a long shot. "It's fun to be turning the tables on your primary opponent, who was making such a big deal about how he is running against the establishment, and now he has been embraced by the establishment. I've been kind of booted off, and we're now the insurgency."

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1 posted on 10/11/2010 7:51:26 AM PDT by Hawk720
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To: Hawk720

This woman is just plain creepy.


2 posted on 10/11/2010 7:52:33 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: Hawk720
This pathetic hag needs a CT scan.
3 posted on 10/11/2010 7:53:54 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (I believe in man-made political climate change.)
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To: Saundra Duffy

What do the journolistas have, a list of gargoyles to write p.r. stories about?


4 posted on 10/11/2010 7:53:54 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Hawk720

She is a woman of strong convictions

Her primary conviction being that she is entitled to be a US Senator


5 posted on 10/11/2010 7:53:56 AM PDT by silverleaf (The lesser of two evils is still evil.)
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To: Hawk720

Predicable “strange new respect” from the Post for Alaska’s sore-loser pink elephant.


6 posted on 10/11/2010 7:53:56 AM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: Hawk720

She better be ready to embrace unemployment


7 posted on 10/11/2010 7:54:31 AM PDT by rightistight
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To: Saundra Duffy
Better Headline:
Thrown out by voters, Murkowski tries to write herself in.
8 posted on 10/11/2010 7:54:43 AM PDT by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: Interesting Times

“Don’t Cry for Me, Alaska!”
Evita Murkowski


9 posted on 10/11/2010 7:55:11 AM PDT by silverleaf (The lesser of two evils is still evil.)
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To: Hawk720

This woman is a nightmare!


10 posted on 10/11/2010 7:55:12 AM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: Hawk720

those RINO’s are just a bunch of demmycrybabies!


11 posted on 10/11/2010 7:55:25 AM PDT by barbarianbabs
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To: Hawk720
40 years of Murkowskis is enough.
12 posted on 10/11/2010 7:56:46 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Hawk720

M I C K E Y .. M U R K O W S K I...

What does that spell?


13 posted on 10/11/2010 7:59:07 AM PDT by JSDude1 (DARE TO DREAM THE DREAM...Work like you want 100 Seats on November 2! -J.S.)
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To: Hawk720

She’s got dem... CRAZY EYES


14 posted on 10/11/2010 8:02:27 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: Saundra Duffy

ya, why have rules if everybody breaks them... people are going to give up on this voting crap if nothing is real, if politicians can’t live by the standards that we all agree to live by, ones which they themselves set in place. this country will fall to total anarchy or total dictatorship... one before the other...


15 posted on 10/11/2010 8:02:27 AM PDT by dps.inspect (the system is rigged...)
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To: Hawk720

Not a real catchy mantra. Plus, she might have a little more luck getting write-ins if her name didn’t require people to spend a half hour in the voting booth to spell it out. She should ask the board of elections to just let her appear on the ballot as “Bitch.” Easier to spell. Plus, her slogan could be something catchy like “Rehitch the Bitch!”


16 posted on 10/11/2010 8:03:47 AM PDT by hampdenkid
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To: Luke21
Local news in not much better.

Big money is backing Lisa
Unions
Native Corps (Who pay how much in taxes???)
Big Oil

The latest of some new ads for Lisa Aired this morning

I would swear she was a DEM candidate - her ads sound like they were written for Bammy..

Did you know Joe Miller was:

Going to end Social Security - all by his own bad self?

Going to stop all FedGov spending in Alaska?

I know ‘cause Lisa told me so.

This women and her parasitic supporters are incorrigible.

17 posted on 10/11/2010 8:04:20 AM PDT by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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To: ASOC
Local news in not much better.

Big money is backing Lisa
Unions
Native Corps (Who pay how much in taxes???)
Big Oil

The latest of some new ads for Lisa Aired this morning

I would swear she was a DEM candidate - her ads sound like they were written for Bammy..

Did you know Joe Miller was:

Going to end Social Security - all by his own bad self?

Going to stop all FedGov spending in Alaska?

I know ‘cause Lisa told me so.

This women and her parasitic supporters are incorrigible.

Forgot to add

Send Joe some dought so he can tell Lisa she's gotta go!

18 posted on 10/11/2010 8:08:03 AM PDT by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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To: Hawk720

Joe Miller should participate in the write-in campaign too. His appeal should be, “Write-in the name Joe Miller. It’s easy to spell and easier on your wallet.”


19 posted on 10/11/2010 8:09:31 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Hawk720

She’s running on the Heir Apparent Party ticket.


20 posted on 10/11/2010 8:09:33 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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