Joe Miller Ends Legal Challenge to Lisa Murkowski's Win in Alaska Senate Race

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Alaskan Joe Miller, the Sarah Palin-backed Republican U.S. Senate candidate, announced Friday he is ending his legal challenge to the successful write-in campaign by Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

During a news conference in Anchorage, Miller said he had accepted the "practical realities" of court decisions that have consistently ruled against him, the Anchorage Daily News reported.

Miller, a Fairbanks lawyer and tea party favorite, defeated Murkowski in the GOP primary in August only to lose when she staged a long-shot write-in campaign in the general election. He has contested the results, based on misspellings of Murkowski's name or other irregularities on more than 8,000 ballots, but has been turned back by state and federal courts.

On Thursday, state officials certified Murkowski as the winner of the Nov. 2 election. The official tally showed that her margin of victory over Miller was 10,252 votes, the Associated Press reported.
Murkowski will take her Senate seat when Congress reconvenes Jan. 5.

Filed Under: Senate, Sarah Palin, 2010 Elections, Tea Party

Tagged: Alaska senate race, dailyguidance, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski

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ddan8719

A victory for the democrat party indeed..how-ever a loss for the good-people of alaska..

January 01 2011 at 8:40 PM Report abuse Permalink -7 rate up rate down Reply

drlvcardoso

Mr Miller stop crying you lost

January 01 2011 at 3:51 PM Report abuse Permalink +15 rate up rate down Reply

finfun58

We need to tear down our existing goverment and rebuild it in the image that George Washington,Thomas Jefferson and John Adams envisioned for us.We have disgraced their memory and destroyed their dream."AMERICA WAKE-UP"!!!!

January 01 2011 at 2:22 PM Report abuse Permalink -14 rate up rate down Reply

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JUST MOOSE

Do you mean a government where only rich, white landowners can vote?
Blacks and women have no rights?
Those people are NOT my national heroes. FDR, IKE, JFK, LBJ and even Nixon and Clinton worked to make this country more inclusive and progressive than the slave holding elitists that you named. I want a USA that reflects the 21st century, not 18th.

January 01 2011 at 11:17 PM Report abuse Permalink +6 rate up rate down Reply

egl1637

So some spelled it with a y instead of i. Big deal. Intent was clear and Joe is a cry baby.

January 01 2011 at 1:18 PM Report abuse Permalink +23 rate up rate down Reply

kuumba58

It's amazing to me how candidates who run on "less government" and want to stop "activist judges" can somehow suddenly find the benefits of government and the judicial system when outcomes don't work in their favor.

January 01 2011 at 1:13 PM Report abuse Permalink +28 rate up rate down Reply

tiffydogg

Does anyone think the American electoral process is now obsolete? Is election an automatic license to steal or to be a prisoner to a certain political party? I have to wonder after our Congress has sent our young men to three wars, at least one of which I believe was started by our own political system. No, I am not anti-American, just educated and anxious to learn. Maybe we ought to send Congress to fight these wars they back and support.

January 01 2011 at 1:09 PM Report abuse Permalink +20 rate up rate down Reply

landherr69

After reading somene saying- if the name is not spell correctly- it does not count. I guess Dan quayle never really ever ate potatoes then? LOL

January 01 2011 at 1:02 PM Report abuse Permalink +10 rate up rate down Reply

james thomas

What Republicans, Conservatives, and Tea Party Nation don't fully understand is, they were voted in as a protest to the current administration, not because the American people hold them in high esteem, or believe they can get the country on the right track. Watch how the Republican Party and Tea Party house and senate members, cave to the President on upcoming policies, so as not to be seen as the party of no. Conservatives got their wish on Nov. 2, but their wish will turn out to be not what they wanted.

January 01 2011 at 12:26 PM Report abuse Permalink +23 rate up rate down Reply