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"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
Alaska Libertarians vote down possibility of having Murkowski on ballot as Libertarian
Well, if embattled Senator Lisa Murkowski was hoping to be reassured by the Alaska Libertarian Party that she’d have a place in their party on the ballot should things fall through after the start of tomorrow’s absentee ballot count in AK, her hopes have been severely dashed. Via Hotline on Call:
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) will not be on the AK Libertarian Party ballot line this fall, according to the secretary of the party.
Murkowski, who is trailing GOP primary to challenger Joe Miller by 1,688 votes with about 23K ballots still to be counted, has reportedly been seeking another way onto the ballot this fall. The Libertarian Party was considered her best option.
Rob Clift, the state Libertarian Party’s secretary, told Hotline On Call that the executive committee of the party met over the weekend. When asked if the decision to keep Murkowski off the ballot line was final, Clift said: “That’s correct.”
Interestingly, Clift also said Murkowski had not reached out to the party.
At this point, if things don’t go her way tomorrow, her only option left would be a write-in candidacy.
Per CNN, there are 25,000 ballots left to count in the AK-Senate Republican primary.
The man currently in the lead, Tea Party favorite Joe Miller, did an interview on CBS’ Face the Nation this past weekend. I haven’t had a chance to watch it, but I hear he did a great job. You can read about it here.
As they say, stay tuned for further developments …
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Hey, did you hear that? Sort of a muffled thump? If I didn’t know better I’d swear it was the sound of a door hitting somebody in the ass…
This must have put the Libertarians on a knife edge. On the one hand, they’d so love to actually win an election they’d sacrifice a virgin on a volcano to get their mitts on a candidate who might actually pull it off. On the other hand, they’d probably like the First Libertarian Senator to be a, well… you know, a Libertarian.
Oh… ummm, ST, that three letter word I used in the first paragraph? It’s a synonym for, uh… donkey. Yeah, that’s it. Please put down the banhammer.
Out of those 25,000 ballots, some are for Democrats, some will be rejected for one reason or another, and some won’t have that race marked (turnout was driven by parental notification ballot initiative, so some number of voters were probably single-interest). Murkowski has to win a disproportionate amount of the remaining portion to beat Miller. I’ve heard that a lot of Miller voters voted early, so Lisa may not be able to count on as many absentees and early votes as she hopes.
I hope Miller does win, just to see her out. I’ve disliked her ever since Daddy gave her his Senate seat when he became governor. Senate seats are not an inheritance, no matter what the Kennedys tell us.
possible new campaign slogan:
Life Was Great Until 2008!
Like Archie Bunker said about FDR, “…we didn’t know he was going to hold onto the job like the pope…” – describes American establishment politicians beyond mere pop culture imagery.
Politicians we should trust least are the ones who will DO ANYTHING to get what they are after.
…you mean like Christ isn Florida? A real Indpendent guy he!