Murkowski Confident as Write-in Tally Grows
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 12th, 2010 5:41 am by HL
Murkowski Confident as Write-in Tally Grows
Alaska elections officials have reviewed almost half of the write-in ballots with nearly 98% of them cast for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Achorage Daily News reports.
“The Murkowski campaign is acting confident of victory and is accusing Joe Miller of taking ‘desperate’ measures to try to win.”
Nate Silver: “Miller’s observers are surely aware of the mathematics behind the ballot-counting process, and it is possible that they are operating on what amounts to a quota to challenge at least as many ballots as would be necessary to leave the outcome of the race in at least some theoretical degree of doubt. There is a lot of gamesmanship in processes such as these. During the Minnesota Senate recount in 2008, the Al Franken and the Norm Coleman campaigns challenged a progressively higher fraction of one another’s ballots each day.”
Palin Gets Ready for Next Book Tour
Sarah Palin next book tour “is a 16-stop campaign starting later this month and spilling into December and designed to take advantage of early holiday gift-buying and — who knows? — maybe some exposure in politically significant places like Iowa,” the Los Angeles Times reports.
The book: America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag.
Palin will make two stops in the early-caucus state of Iowa and end in the crucial primary state of South Carolina.
