Murkowski Out In Alaska.

By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  September 1st at 10:01 AM  | 

Another incumbent, this time a Republican, has fallen by the wayside. Lisa Murkowski becomes the the seventh incumbent to fall to the wrath of the voters this year. Joe Miller and Lisa Murkowski Murkowski was defeated by conservative lawyer Joe Miller of Fairbanks for the Republican primary. Miller came out of nowhere, backed by the Tea-Party groups and aided as well by an endorsement from | Read More »

The Old And The New.

By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  August 25th at 01:19 PM  | 

The latest batch of primary election results yielded few surprises. After some scathing attacks on rival JD Hayworth, and a no-less-than-spectacular turnaround on immigration policies, John McCain was to cruise home with a twenty four percentage point lead. John McCain While Hayworth is a largely unknown quantity in political circles, I think it is a safe assumption that he would not have been tempted to | Read More »