What a crock of shit. Nobody gets tossed from the primaries and comes up winning by that kind of margin without a lot of dirty tricks and flat out cheating.
Ton = ten thousand. I thought the vote was a lot closer, like around 2000.
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.
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.
“Ton = ten thousand. I thought the vote was a lot closer, like around 2000.”
The murky’s lead is 2267 when comparing undisputed votes. But who knows as the state was pitching for her the whole time, and they haven’t released their registries (Miller’s camp has sued to see them.)