Posted on 08/03/2021 1:37:50 PM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is leading her challengers in Alaska’s Senate race, according to an Alaska Survey Research poll released this week.
In a four-person ranked-choice voting (RCV) setup, Murkowski leads her potential challengers, as conservative Republican candidate Kelly Tshibaka fares the best, falling nine points behind, garnering 27 percent to the incumbent’s 36 percent:
The second round of the survey, which does not include Joe Miller — who famously defeated Murkowski in Alaska’s GOP Senate primary in 2010, only to lose to Murkowski following her successful write-in campaign — showed Tshibaka edging out Murkowski 40 percent to 39 percent. Miller does not appear to be running this election cycle.
The third round, which eliminated Democrat state Sen. Elvi Gray-Jackson, who is weighing a bid against Murkowski, showed Murkowski up again, besting her conservative challenger by ten points:
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Ha ha ha ha sure thing- go away!
Frank Murkowski?
I thought he was dead. Isn’t that how Murk got the seat inherited it from dear old Dad?
Still alive, apparently. Dad left the Senate to run for governor in 2002 and was indeed replaced by the daughter. Frank Murkowski was governor for 4 years and was defeated by Palin in 2006. Daughter doesn't like Palin much, needless to say.
Should I vote Al Gross (D) for spite if she does get the primary?
Its rank stench voting. Maine gave up their right to vote a couple years ago. The left just runs multiple candidates and 2 place wins by default. Its a SCAM.
Palin is not very popular there with all of the family scandals which got negative press and they could attack her as a “quitter” for having resigned mid term as governor.
Murkowski can definitely pull this off with the ranked choice voting strategy. She will campaign to get Democrats to pick her as the second choice. If no candidate gets over 50%, she would get all of those votes in the second round. Here’s another thing she could do to get another huge pool of second choice votes: Do a whispering campaign to convince all of the voters for the other Republican candidate to also pick her as the second choice - the logic would be that is a stop gap against Dems taking the seat in the event their preferred more conservative candidate doesn’t win.
She’s running to be the “second choice” candidate. Given she was able to win before without even having her name on the ballot, don’t discount that she has a winning strategy mapped out for this where her name will be on the ballot.
There is no longer a party primary.
No - Frank Murkowksi was the incumbent Senator when he ran for Governor of Alaska and won. He appointed Lisa Murkowski to serve the rest of his term in the Senate, as he had to vacate that seat when he became Governor.
There is not a party primary.
He who counts the votes decides who won. It’s the new normal in America. Probably since the 2012 elections or even earlier.
Ah...looking closer now I see how they came up with this result - Joe Miller is not even running - but they put him in this poll to split the opposition to Murkowski in the first round in the responses to the poll.
Thats what Alaskan friends tell me.
In general politicians have a time & place. If something happens and their displaced from that, its hard to get it back. Nixon was about the only one that I can think of that pulled off that sort of rehabilitation. Maybe there are others but I can’t think of any. She probably needs to start almost completely over in politics - demonstrate her interests are primarily local & Alaskan again.
And they both look like turtles.
It was an attempt to simulate the ranked choice voting system.
I actually agree with you. Senate is a race which allows Palin to do retail Alaska political issues while at the same time commenting on National issues now and again. It’s actually a good comeback venue.
If Palin wants to rebuild her political brand, she has to start in Alaska.
With the margin of error it's pretty darn close. Need to see Kelly pick up 5-10 points soon or run Palin.
Don’t you think going after Don Young’s seat would be a better first step. He’s 88 his district is the whole state. It would be state wide exposure without the Palin vs Murk hoopla. A Senate defeat would finish her politcally. A House defeat might still but it also might not since ist lower down in the poltical totem pole. but running for the House seems to be the least risky from her standpoint. I don’t even know if this is her goal. If political viability & rehabilitation is her highest priority and it probably should be. Saving us from Murk probably sho Let someone take that risk to do that.
I wouldn’t mind Palin in the US House at all, and that may be her best shot.
Naturally, she’d have to have Young’s blessing and Laying On Of Hands. It’s basically a Third Senate Seat.
Palin could go retail, get elected, distribute the pork like Young did, then run for her old job again after she rebuilds her patronage network.
She’s always been an administrator.
I would not at all be surprised if she does that, but it depends on her relationship with Don Young.
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