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Murkowski Certified Winner of Alaska Senate Election
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyAlaska state officials on Thursday certified Sen. Lisa Murkowski winner of the Nov. 2 election, the Associated Press reports, capping a remarkable comeback for an incumbent who mounted a long-shot write-in campaign to keep her job. Murkowski lost to tea party favorite Joe Miller in an August Republican primary. Then she defied the GOP establishment and ran as a write-in candidate, winning by more than 10,000 votes. But Miller, a Fairbanks lawyer, didn't concede. In a series of legal actions, he challenged ballots that misspelled Murkowski's name and sought a recount of the entire race ...
Alaska's Joe Miller Not Giving Up Senate Fight, Still Acting Like a Candidate
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIt's almost as if the Senate campaign has been extended in Alaska. More than a month after Joe Miller finished second to Sen. Lisa Murkowski's write-in campaign, the conservative Republican maintains a presence on TV and the Internet, raises money, and lashes out at those who call on him to give up the fight. Miller is challenging Murkowski's apparent victory in state court, asking that a judge set a single standard of review for all of the write-in ballots cast on Nov. 3. But even if all of the ballots challenged by Miller's observers were thrown out, Murkowski would still hold a 2,169 vote ...
Alaska's Contested Senate Election Headed to Court
By not in system - AOL NewsANCHORAGE, Alaska (Nov. 22) -- Alaska's bitterly contested Senate election went to state court Monday when Republican Joe Miller sued the state over the way write-in ballots for his GOP rival have been counted. Miller is trying to stop the state from using discretion in determining voter intent on write-in ballots cast for Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The Associated Press last week called the race for Murkowski, who had a 10,328-vote lead over Miller. Her total includes 8,159 ballots contested by Miller observers. Excluding those, she had a 2,169-vote lead. Murkowski mounted the write-in campaign ...
Lisa Murkowski Defeats Joe Miller, Hangs On to Alaska Senate Seat
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAfter more than a week of ballot counting, Sen. Lisa Murkowski has been named the winner in Alaska, defeating tea party favorite Joe Miller and becoming the first Senate candidate in more than 50 years to win a write-in campaign. With only 700 votes left to count Wednesday afternoon, state election officials announced that Murkowski's lead was insurmountable. Related Stories Fred Thompson: It's Time for Joe Miller to 'Give It Up,' 'Show a Little Class' The Associated Press reported that the incumbent was ahead by about 10,000 votes -- a total that includes 8,153 ballots ...
Joe Miller: Alaska Election Officials Using 'Different Standard' for Lisa Murkowski
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAs the counting of write-in ballots continues in Alaska, Senate candidate Joe Miller said Thursday that state election officials were using a "different standard" to judge votes for his opponent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Miller, who has sued to disqualify any apparent votes for Murkowski that misspelled her name, told ABC News that the state Division of Elections has "decided to change the approach" to the way it counts write-ins. The reason for the special treatment, according to Miller, could be because the name "Murkowski" goes back generations in Alaska politics. Her father, Frank, was ...
Murkowski Claims 98 Percent of Write-In Ballots in Alaska Senate Race
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 11) -- It doesn't matter if you spell her name "Merkowski," "Murkowsky" or "Murcowski," Alaskan write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski is feeling good about her chances to return to the Senate. Murkowski claimed 98 percent of the write-in ballots counted Wednesday when the Alaska Division of Elections began the five-day process of counting upward of 90,000 write-in ballots for a race that may produce the first successful Senate write-in campaign since 1954. "So far things look really good for us," Murkowski campaign manager Kevin Sweeney told the Anchorage Daily News. Murkowski's early ...
Judge Denies Joe Miller's Bid to Exclude Misspelled Alaska Write-in Votes
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe counting of write-in ballots continues in Alaska, after a federal judge denied Senate candidate Joe Miller's request to disqualify any apparent votes for Sen. Lisa Murkowski that misspelled her name. U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline said Wednesday that Miller didn't prove he would suffer "irreparable harm" if the count went on, The Associated Press reported. The Republican sued earlier Wednesday, arguing that it was illegal for the Alaska Division of Elections to exercise any discretion on voter intent on ballots where the name is not spelled exactly correct. The judge ...
Murkowski Write-In Ballot Count to Begin Wednesday in Alaska
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIt's not over in Alaska but Sen. Lisa Murkowski appears to be in the driver's seat as election officials prepare to count absentee ballots and examine the all-important write-in votes that suggest the incumbent came out ahead in a three-way contest for U.S. Senate. Murkowski told NBC's "Today" show Thursday her bid to make history as the first Senate write-in candidate to win since 1954 is "not yet complete," but she feels good about where the race stands. "We are poised," she said. "Write-in" led in Alaska on Tuesday with 41 percent of the vote, tea party Republican Joe Miller had 34 percent ...
Sarah Palin's Midterm Scorecard: A Winning Record, but Some Key Losses
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailySarah Palin came out a big winner in terms of raw numbers Tuesday, but saw four of her key endorsees take prominent losses in the midterm elections. The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee offered her star power -- and the occasional campaign contribution or robocall -- to more than 100 conservative candidates during the primary and general elections. A Politics Daily tally puts Palin's Tuesday successes at 62 wins, 23 losses and seven contests that are still too close to call, with Palin's candidates trailing in five of those races. That's a 70 percent win ...
Democrat Kitzhaber Wins Oregon Governor; 5 Other Key Races Undecided
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyOregon gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber, the state's Democratic former two-term governor hoping to return after a seven-year hiatus, was declared the winner over Republican Chris Dudley Wednesday night. According to unofficial returns, Kitzhaber won 664,845 votes, or 48.74 percent, compared to Dudley's 659,362 votes, or 48.34 percent. The Oregon contest was among a handful of key midterm races that went down to the wire. On Wednesday night, two U.S. Senate races, three governorships and a handful of congressional races remained undecided. In Washington state, Sen. Patty Murray, ...
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