Posted on 11/16/2010 6:52:07 PM PST by rhema
Terrible
Well.....sad to say, but that’s now:
Miller, Angle, O’Donnell, and Buck all going down to defeat - in a tidal wave year for Republicans.
Sadly, though the Tea Party had some smashing success at the local levels (Congress), statewide Senate victories were a mixed bag at best, and relegated primarily to red states. The House is drastically more Conservative, thankfully; the Senate has taken a much smaller step right than the House.
Perhaps the goal, as noted many times here at FR, needs to be to nominate electable Conservatives from now on, especially in swing states and blue states. Just nominating whoever yells the loudest that they are the only “true” Conservative in the race is not producing ample victories outside of safely red states.
Do the stupid parasitic natives really outnumber the producer class in Alaska ? They really must know where the gravy train is if they went through the trouble of finding Lisa Murkowski’s name from a list containing dozens, if not hundreds.
What about the estimated 25,000 to 30,000 absentee military ballots still to be counted on the 17th?
Surely, Miller will not concede without them being counted.
Pretty sure Joe was on the ballot, as opposed to this write in campaign. This is pretty much unprecedented in the modern era. It is a shame. The combination of insider power, dumb voters, Democratic crossover, and Joe’s subpar general election campaign.
aren’t there still 30,000 military votes to be counted...if they make it by the dead line *Keep an eye on the post offices...
At this point, I imagine The Cow has had the military votes deemed illegal....because no votes from them are write ins...
I hope Alaska is proud that they voted for the true, leftist Rat in this election. Good luck, suckers!
This bugs me. Joe Miller was the only person I really liked who ran in the last election, and I thot for sure he was going to win.
That’s right, we’ve kicked the rats off all the benches that were warming them for future office.
Lieberman won as an independent in CT after losing in the democrat primary. I haven’t been following all the details of this vote count, but Murkowski may have just done what Lieberman did in CT: win the centrist vote. Many of the democrats may have decided their candidate couldn’t win and switched over to voting for Murkowski. That’s similar to what happened in CT when a lot of democrats voted for Lieberman and gave him the win in that election.
The longer the "counters" get to play with the "ballots", the weirder things get. All vote counts should be finalized by midnight on election day. All the fraudulent "provisional ballots", etc. should be thrown in the dumpster where they belong. Anything after the initial count is fraudulent and shouldn't be counted. That's banana republic crap. The potheads used the "provisional" ballot technique to get "medicinal" pot "legalized" in Arizona this time. Arizonans voted it down. The potheads from California came in and cast "provisional" ballots to put it over the top. Sick stuff. Our elections are a joke.
I think that’s what happened...she did what Liberman did in CT and got a lot of democrats to abandon their party’s candidate and vote for her. I’d rather have Miller in the senate but it is her right to run in the general election even after losing the primary. Lieberman did it in CT and he won decisively.
I hear the locals living on oil lands get ~1800/mo checks.
Did Princess convince them Joe was going to take that away?
I think we would have seen several stories about that, if it were true. Seems to me, that a judgment like that would create a nationwide controversy about voter disenfranchisement, as well.
Does Alaska have a recall provision?
If the Alaskans want to be represented by a RINO, that is their privilege. But I am still going to hold my Senators and reps to the conservative Tea Party standard, so if they continue to act like Democrats, they do so at their peril.
It’s a rarity in politics to lose the primary and win the general election as an independent or a write-in. The only way to do that is if one or both of the candidates in the major parties are relatively weak candidates. In this race, the democrat was a weak candidate with no chance to win and so a lot of dems may have defected and voted for Murkowski. Liberman won in CT because both the major party candidates were mediocre and uninspiring and Joe took the center and almost all of the independents.
What makes you think there are 25,000 to 30,000 military ballots? In a State of 698,473 people? You actually believe that there are 25,000 to 30,000 military ballots?
In New York, which sent out 83,422 military ballots in 2008 (A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR) only 54,220 were returned. This is in a State of 19,541,453.
So you are telling me that a State of 698,473 is going to almost match the returned ballots of a State of 19 MILLION?
She won't be welcome elsewhere.
Oh well, the dims won the Alaska Senate seat.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.