Lisa Murkowski Says She Believes She's Poised To Make History

WASHINGTON — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is confident about her write-in campaign for re-election, saying that while she is "not yet complete with making history," she is "poised and it feels good."

In an interview broadcast Thursday on NBC's "Today," Murkowski criticized former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who rallied for the official GOP Senate nominee, Joe Miller. Murkowski said she would not support a presidential bid by Palin, whom she described as lacking "a worldly approach."

Murkowski ran as a write-in candidate after being ousted in the GOP primary by Miller. As of Wednesday, write-in votes counted for 41 percent of the ballots in Tuesday's election; Miller had 34 percent; and Democrat Scott McAdams had 24 percent. The counting of write-in ballots is scheduled to begin Nov. 10.

Comments

[worldsam]

12:07 AM on 11/07/2010

Palin might hedge her bets here. Who knows she have have some mending to do should Murkowski win.

[southingtonian]

12:15 AM on 11/07/2010

That would be the reasonable thing to do, so don't look for it.

[kadyak]

10:06 PM on 11/05/2010

held my nose and voted for Lisa. After all, she only recently sponsored a bill to strip the EPA of its power to regulate carbon emissions. But, better Lisa than Joe, who, it now appears, wants to steal the election. Many people said Lisa is a good person, but she is quite republican. She will be not beholden to anyone in DC; maybe that will have a positive effect on her future votes.

[Watermelonman]

06:02 PM on 11/05/2010

I wonder how her colleagues will react when she shows up there [assuming that the final numbers seal the deal for her] in January as the re-elected Senator from Alaska ... and not beholden to anyone. I think that she will be the "sand in their shoe" for the next Congress.

I cannot believe that I am rooting for her ... but Joe Miller had that effect on me. I am sorry that the Dem was not even competitive.

[LiberalsLiberateLiberty]

05:18 PM on 11/05/2010

A Con beats a Conbag...yea

[FalstaffsMind]

02:52 PM on 11/05/2010

There is something vaguely pornographic about that photo. I did a double take.

[Zeroes]

01:25 PM on 11/05/2010

Her campaign manager said she is a moderate.

[ItWasntMeReally]

01:21 PM on 11/05/2010

She can see Putin mowing his Russia lawn from her backyard, but she couldn't see the Joe Miller trainwreck coming right at her in her front yard.

[RogHol]

04:29 PM on 11/05/2010

That's because her house is nowadays a bunker inhabited by a one ParanoidPalin dreaming nightmares about reporters asking questions.

[AZAFVET]

08:53 AM on 11/05/2010

The Independent Party is growing. Good sign

[nikanj]

03:41 PM on 11/05/2010

Lisa is an INO.
Independent in Name Only.

[Freesia2]

03:01 AM on 11/05/2010

I just read one of the best articles to date about Joe Miller. As much as it says about this awful con artist (and in a way explains much about the motivations of the ex-governor con artist who supported him) it also is rather sympathetic to Miller's supporters - who deserved better than being played by this duo.

Money quote: "Alaska tends to attract two kinds of immigrants. Adventurers who want to live in or on the edge of America's Last Frontier, where life is a little edgier than anywhere else. Even metropolitan "Los Anchorage," we must remember, bills itself as the "Big Wild Life,'' and it is. Almost nowhere else in the world do you run the risk of stumbling into a grizzly bear in a city park. And that up-close-and-personal encounter with a moose, as portrayed in the old TV series "Northern Exposure,'' is more likely in Anchorage than in any city anywhere. Some Alaska immigrants come for this, or for the authentic, closer-to-the-land connection to the still truly wild Alaska that exists just beyond the road system.

And then there is that other group Alaska attracts -- con artists, schemers, ne'er-do-wells and end-of-the-roaders looking for that place at the edge of civilization where the rules are lax and the tolerance for oddballs is high."

http://alaskadispatch.com/voices/medred/7383-if-only-joe-miller-had-been-what-he-said-he-was

[jaslyn]

11:43 AM on 11/05/2010

their politicians must come from the second reason.

[notdarkyet]

09:32 PM on 11/05/2010

The Klondike gold rushers.

[Rendy Bee Mulyono]

03:00 AM on 11/05/2010

One of few sane republicans left

[TheBaffler]

05:53 AM on 11/05/2010

How so? She shares Joe Miller's far right position on nearly every issue.

[ObamaYouBetcha]

10:55 AM on 11/05/2010

Really? I don't RECALL hearing Murkowski proclaim her admiration for East Germany and their amazing border-controlling ways. Did I miss Murkowski arresting journalists with her merry band of wacked-out militia?

[salamanca1]

03:58 PM on 11/05/2010

Oh God, it's the Baffler again. Baffling himself.

[wassilij]

05:09 PM on 11/05/2010

Your avatar fits..

[smoovejef]

02:47 AM on 11/05/2010

I could applaud Sen. Murkowski for winning reelection on a write-in campaign if only because it will pi$$ Palin off to no end. I only wish I could be a fly on the wall between Palin & Miller when 'The Conversation' goes down. Someone, PLEASE bug the room!

[jaslyn]

11:45 AM on 11/05/2010

not only doesn't she have 'a worldly approach, she doesn't have a local approach. The only approach she has is 'how does Sarah benefit.'

[RogHol]

04:35 PM on 11/05/2010

...and "All lights on me! "

[whataboutGod]

02:35 AM on 11/05/2010

Someone said no to Sarah? You go girl!!!!!!

[Robert Cantor]

02:32 AM on 11/05/2010

I suppose if you are running a race and the guy waaaay ahead of you falls down and breaks his leg and so you come in 1st, that's winning too!

[whataboutGod]

02:35 AM on 11/05/2010

or if people just see him for what he is?

[Robert Cantor]

02:46 AM on 11/05/2010

that too

[Greg Petty]

12:56 PM on 11/05/2010

Miller was and is a lying dog, He lost because of teabagglitis, inability to tell the truth, a horrid,hateful disease , That only effects,Tea Baggers,or people institutionalized

[marbiol]

02:12 AM on 11/05/2010

who will this opportunist caucus with or vote with? look at her heritasge?? shes a rethug!! just look at the pres heriutage--hes a closet socialist! how will each pan out? theiy were rISED! murkonski in tghe end will be no better than miller--unless shes bioth embiuttered AND willing to turn her back on her father...

[mediamarv]

01:22 PM on 11/05/2010

Spell checker on holiday?

[RogHol]

04:39 PM on 11/05/2010

HAHA! yes, that was sort of a record!

[sqeptiq]

02:12 AM on 11/05/2010

Well, at least Lisa Murkowski's human. That's more than I can say for Joe Miller.

[Robert Cantor]

02:33 AM on 11/05/2010

humans make the best monsters!