AP: Murkowski Wins Alaska Senate Race

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Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday became the first Senate candidate in more than 50 years to win a write-in campaign, emerging victorious over her Tea Party rival following a painstaking, weeklong count of handwritten votes.

The victory completes a remarkable comeback for the Republican after her humiliating loss in the GOP primary to Joe Miller.

Her victory became clear when Alaska election officials confirmed they had only about 700 votes left to count, putting Murkowski in safe territory to win re-election. Murkowski is flying back from Washington to Alaska to make an "exciting announcement'' to supporters Wednesday, proclaiming in an e-mail that the campaign "made history.''

Murkowski has a lead of about 10,000 votes, a total that includes 8,153 ballots in which Miller observers challenged over things like misspellings, extra words or legibility issues.

It was not immediately clear how Miller will proceed. He and his advisers have vowed to take legal action over what they contend is an unfair tally in Murkowski's favor, but Miller has maintained he'll stop fighting if the math doesn't work in his favor.

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/17/131391244/ap-murkowski-wins-alaska-senate-race

[mawilson 2,133]

Very impressive.

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Very impressive.

Those Alaskans can sure spell.

[The_Dude 1,142]

Those Alaskans can sure spell.

They even distributed this flyer to help people spell her name....

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They even distributed this flyer to help people spell her name....

Nice. Hey, whatever works. Giving voters the tools they need to properly cast their ballot for who they want is important.

[The_Dude 1,142]

Nice. Hey, whatever works. Giving voters the tools they need to properly cast their ballot for who they want is important.

Don't tell Joe that. He was contending that any ballot that contained a mispelled vote for Murkowski was in fact a protest vote for him.