With that said, the loss of Miller in Alaska, doesn't show well on Palin. No two ways around that. It looks bad.
As for Buck in CO. Nothing to do with Palin. Everything to do with the top of the ticket there and the GOP having NO real candidate for Gov. Tancredo cost us, because he brought people out just to vote AGASINT him....which ended up costing Buck at least a couple % pts and the min. (Enough that he very likely wins).
As for DE. I was glad just to see Castle out of there. The guy was garbage. I'd rather Coons be there. As for O'Donnell she was an awful candidate that was immature to boot. Her immaturity came off more and more.
NV. Simple case that Angle did not make that race entirely about Reid. She had to make herself part of it. Her Vs him. That is why we lost. If she would have left herself out of it and simply nationalized that race....we win. Can we blame that on Palin. Of course not.
“With that said, the loss of Miller in Alaska, doesn’t show well on Palin. No two ways around that. It looks bad.
As for Buck in CO. Nothing to do with Palin. Everything to do with the top of the ticket there and the GOP having NO real candidate for Gov. Tancredo cost us, because he brought people out just to vote AGASINT him....which ended up costing Buck at least a couple % pts and the min. (Enough that he very likely wins).
As for DE. I was glad just to see Castle out of there. The guy was garbage. I’d rather Coons be there. As for O’Donnell she was an awful candidate that was immature to boot. Her immaturity came off more and more.
NV. Simple case that Angle did not make that race entirely about Reid. She had to make herself part of it. Her Vs him. That is why we lost. If she would have left herself out of it and simply nationalized that race....we win. Can we blame that on Palin. Of course not”
Four great points.
I would also add that undoubtedly Murky let it be known that she would still caucus w/GOP if she won as part of secret deal not to strip her of her committee positions. So that leaves three to get.
No matter what the polls showed, ousting a sitting majority leader was always going to be a tough nut to crack. Especially one who could use unethical, if not illegal,
strongarm GOTV tactics.
COD is probably the one glaring mistake. However, despite what was said, I really doubt that they were going to give up Biden’s seat w/o a fight.
I believe a goodly number of very political Dems voted for Murkowski in AK, knowing McAdams didn’t have a chance. Dem Senator Begich made a statement a day or two before the election that a Miller loss would be devastating for Palin. I would speculate that the Murkowski camp was to some degree in cahoots with Begich to get Dems to write in her name. The idea was to have Palin look bad, period.
To start with Miller hasn't lost to Murcowsh** yet, all the ballots have not been counted. Secondly, the dimwits crossed over to write in ballots for lisa and has nothing to do with Sarah and does not reflect badly on her. Lastly, even if, somehow, you could blame a potential loss(which hasn't occurred yet)on Palin, then you are going to have to credit her with the 1000 democrats who lost their seats across the nation both locally, state wide and in the fed. Those credits would far outweigh any negative she would get from Alaska.
I will bet Miller wins after all the write ins and absentee ballots are counted. There is no way Murcowsh**'s name is on all the write ins, or even 80%.