It was official yesterday, Lisa Murkowski has conceded the GOP primary for the nomination to run for the U.S. Senate to Joe Miller. Murkowski was on a fools errand waiting for the absentee and disputed ballots to be counted.
On Tuesday at 11:10 AM after receiving some information on votes to be counted I did some tabulations. Then on Facebook I commented:
“I am looking at the numbers of absentee, early and questioned ballots in Alaska and crunching some numbers. It is hard to tell how many of these will affect the Miller/Murkowski race but to me it looks like Murkowski can at most gain 100 to 200 votes max on Miller.
Possibly very likely she will gain much less than 100.
Crossing my fingers.”
I sent the detailed numbers showing Murkowski gaining about 53 votes to a pollster friend of mine and her response to me was only to say, “Good analysis. Can’t disagree.”
After Miller had a lead of about 1,668 votes the alaska Public Radio Network reports with thousands of additional ballots counted the number had moved down just a hair to 1,630. That was apparently enough to make Murkowski realize that Palin had again whopped her family in Alaskan Politics.
As of Wednesday Murkowski is still apparently fuming. She did not endorse Miller in her concession speech and according to the Politico, “when questioned about a possible endorsement on Wednesday, Murkowski spokesman Steve Wackowski declined to comment.”
No real surprise there. From everything that I have heard from people that have dealt with Murkowski in the political arena the woman is an arrogant sort who does not take rejection all that well and who really thinks she is entitled to be Senator. Now that she isn’t she is going to have a lot of time on her hands to think about what she has done and the role she has helped play in leading America closer to the cliff.
Miller doesn’t need her endorsement though. From the prepolling I have been given from various sources, Miller is trouncing his Democratic opponent in head to head match ups.
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