“Miller should preserve his viability for the future and just bow out gracefully.”
Seriously? Come talk to us after the military ballots are counted - or do you wanna go there and talk to those men and women about how their votes won’t count here?!
Miller’s at 87,000+ votes now - if murk gets 90% uncontested she’s at around 88,500, then there’s the military votes. I’ve been saying for days that this isn’t over. Some people are speculating that there are 10,000 military votes - what if Miller out polls murk by 2 or 3K there - then he’d just need about 60% of his challenged votes to hold up in court to win.
Slim but fighting chance, military votes haven’t been counted, but you want him to ‘bow out gracefully’??
Are you serious?
I never thought it could get this close but strange things happen.
As you say it isn’t over by a long shot. It appears that Miller has about a 25K lead over actual write-ins for Murkowski with some 29K write-ins left to count. Then there may be squabbles and the potential court cases over the other boxes that contain the questioned write-in name/spelling/etc.
Then we have the overseas Military/Civilian ballots which the cut off date for receiving is Nov. 17, I believe. AK had about 13K of these in 08 but I can’t find the 06 number which would be more similar as it was a mid-term election.
Anyway it isn’t over and may become one of those races with only a few hundred votes separating the two.
I was under the impression (from news reports) that the margin for LM was much bigger—insurmoutable actually. Of course, I don’t live in Alaska so I’m not following as closely as if I did
And that includes Fox News.