Update for Results through November 12: Murkowski’s unchallenged ballots are now up to 90% of total ballots cast. That would take the write-in candidate to 83,681 votes, against Miller’s 82,180, with some 72% of the precincts counted. Absentee ballots aren’t all tallied yet, but unless they are statistically aberrational, they won’t affect the outcome. Bottom…
WC believes that in any fair political system, the Joe Miller Senate campaign is dead. Sure, it can be hard to tell. Decades ago, when WC was a young pup. he was coming down French Pete Creek Trail in the Oregon Cascades and stepped on a big timber rattler, breaking its spine just behind the…
Unnoticed in the fury over Whitman versus Boxer, and Fiorina versus Brown, and all of the other expensive madness that is California politics, was the passage of Proposition 14 back in June. Under this new open primary system, voters will no longer be limited to choosing among candidates from their own parties. Proposition 14 will put the…
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