[Cicero]

And, Murkowski, put the blame for her potential loss at the feet of the former governor, saying: "I think she's out for her own self-interest. I don't think she's out for Alaska's interest."

I guess it depends on what you mean by "going negative." I seriously doubt that she refrained from making any attacks on her opponent. Or that she had nothing to do with all those anti-Palin stories in the press up there. Maybe she refrained from going as negative as these pros wanted, but I wouldn't take her word for it, or the press's word for it, that she never went negative. This story itself contradicts that meme, although the writer doesn't seem to notice it.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Murkowski attack ad boomerangs

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41415.html