Lisa Murkowski is doing her damnedest to kiss up to Alaska's Democrats. Here she is in yesterday's Chamber of Commerce debate, answering the question of which Senators she most admired.
Incumbent Lisa Murkowski, a lifelong registered Republican who is waging a write-in campaign after losing her party's nomination in August, named two Democrats.
"The (senators) that immediately come to mind are those that are on the other side of the aisle and I have a good working relationship with," Murkowski said. She named Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, the New Mexico Democrat with whom Murkowski serves on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Don't buy it, Dems. She's still a Republican and is still going to vote for Mitch McConnell as caucus leader. The polling is abundantly clear: a Dem vote for Murkowski hurts the extremely viable Scott McAdams.
Take that 35 percent who think they're doing something useful propping up Murkowski (and Mitch McConnell, who she has promised to vote for), give those votes to McAdams, and he's suddenly at 39 percent, or in the lead. In other words, the Democrats can win this seat if they come home to their excellent candidate.
The challenge for McAdams is to convince Democrats that he is viable in a split race, encouraging those Democrats to come home. For Murkowski, the challenge is to keep those Democrats afraid of wasting their vote while picking up the tiny number of undecideds. And for Miller? He better hope none of the above happens, as his support appears to be maxed out.
Come home, Alaska Dems. You can beat Joe Miller outright with a Democrat.
And we non-Alaskans can help McAdams spread the word and convince all those Dems to come home. It's a cheap state for media, but a hard state to get around physically. McAdams needs all the help he can get.
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