Posted on 08/18/2010 5:32:23 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
I have been reading some of the reports that tout U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (Rino-Alaska) and her big fundraising advantage over conservative challenger Joe Miller in the august 24 Alaska GOP primary. These articles usually reference a poll over a month old commissioned by a Democrat candidate for Governor, Ethan Berkowitz, showing Murkowski with a wide lead. Leaving aside the fact that primaries are hard to poll, especially in a state like Alaska, where it takes a genuine effort to vote, a poll commissioned by a Dem candidate for governor measuring support in the GOP primary for Senate is curious, to say the least. Why would he care, unless he is pulling for Murkowski to win, which is in fact the case, according to the Washington Post Article linked in the post below.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2562416/posts
Even so, why would he commission such a poll with a race to run himself? Is it possible that such a poll is suspect?
On August 14, I posted the follwoing link with an analysis showing Miller versus Mukowski on facebook in the very recent past:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2570601/posts
As of today, August 18 at 6 p.m., Joe Miller has 3687 facebook friends. Lisa Murkowski has 2341.
On July 31, 2010, Miller had only 1799. It took him two weeks, until August 14, to add another thousand friends. (He ended the day with well over 2700. It has taken Miller only FOUR DAYS to add another thousand, as he is now at 3700. That is MOMENTUM, folks.
Murkowski, the sitting U.S. Senator, had 2244 on July 31. By August 14, she had added only 84. Four days later she is really surging (LOL), having added a whopping 13, for a grand total of 2341.
For the past 18 days, Miller has been beating her on Facebook by a factor of nearly 20-1 (1888-97)
For the past four days, as the election approaches, Miller is destroying her by a factor of approaching 100-1 (922-13). This is only explicable as a surge in support.
Facebook numbers are not scientific but neither are primary polls, especially those bought and paid for by Democrat hacks like Ethan Berkowitz. The Facebook race reflects that the level of interest in Miller’s campaign is far greater than in Murkowski, and the gap is widening as the election approaches. Miller is peaking at the right time.
Ping!
FWIW Scott Brown had IIRC double or more FB fans than Marcia Coakley.
“Scott Brown had IIRC double or more FB fans than Marcia Coakley.”
Interesting. I did not know that. Miller is on track to have double Murkowski’s FB support by election day.
No poll taken by a ‘rat candidate is ever reliable; they use polls as propaganda, and shape their questions to deliver the desired result.
I wonder if high speed internet is available to all parts of Alaska? Dial up makes it pretty hard to even take part in facebook, utube, etc.
I live in a remote part of the Country (not Alaska) and true high speed is not available where I am, so just wondering about Alaska?
For sure Sarah has it, but I wonder what percentage of Alaskans have it? There is satellite internet yes, but kind of pricy for some.
Thank you kindly.
ADN is suppressing any info that shows that Miller is catching up; as me thinks he is. I sent our kids absentee ballots in (they are off to school); wife and I will vote nx week. I even got a couple of our local Indians to change to repubs so they could vote for Miller, ha ha; they like their guns too, never vote but were signed up as Dems when they turned 18.
I believe most of the repubs I know are voting for Miller. People are sick of Lisa crawling up Obama's behind over this and that. They never liked how her dad gave her the job in the first place. Ak is a conservative place; repubs up here don't think too much of RINOs anyway.
Very interesting anecdotal information. I will pass this along.
I had no idea Miller might be gaining on Lisa like that. I had thought that the Palin endorsement might possibly have backfired on him up there for one reason or another (her popularity has gone down in the state in recent years). There was also some controversy over some of Miller’s commercials.
Best,
Chris
Yes I can not afford high speed satellite either, so I am on dial up, I do not even attempt to view video over internet, just can not be done with dial up. I was wondering if Alaskans had the same issues, and you have answered my question, sounds like my hunch was correct.
For full disclosure I really have little desire to view utube or facebook.
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