Yesterday, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski became the third sitting Republican senator to publicly support marriage equality, in an eloquent op-ed that details her lunch with a lesbian couple whom she nominated as "Angels in Adoption":
On yesterday's Meet the Press, Arizona's John McCain, the crankiest Senator from the nuttiest state, told host David Gregory that Republicans might want to consider dropping this whole uterine crusade thing and focus on things that don't make people think conservatives hate women. You know you're doing something wrong…
It would take quite a monumental asshole to oppose providing assistance to victims of domestic violence. But, here we are in 2012, enmeshed in serious discussions about whether a woman's boss should be able to decide what health care she's allowed to purchase through insurance and if a woman carrying a stillborn fetus…
Okay, now we can say Lisa Murkowski has officially won her Senate race. Only one other senator has ever been elected as a write-in candidate: Strom Thurmond.
Another shot fired in the long-running Murkowski-Palin feud, but also... true. Murkowski told Katie Couric she wants a candidate who "goes to bed at night and wakes up in the morning thinking about how we're going to deal with" issues.
[Juneau, November 10: Alaska Elections Division Director Gail Fenumiai and Assistant Attorney General Sarah Felix look over a write-in ballot, just one of the more than 92,500 they started poring through today. And somewhere, Murkowski waits. Image via AP.]
Patty Murray has kept her Senate seat in Washington State. Sorry, Republicans. And Lisa Murkowski is thanking supporters for her win, although she won't actually know if she won until next week. Sorry, Tea Party and Sarah Palin.
This is an mailer that Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski sent to appeal to women voters. But not everyone is buying it. Meanwhile, women voters are unimpressed by Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina. What's wrong with you chicks?
The Anchorage Daily News says the three-way Alaska Senate race is being defined by the abortion debate. But we thought the culture wars are over! Never mind, social issues might might work in Democrats' favor, so let's run with it.
Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller mocks incumbent Lisa Murkowski, who lost in the primary, in what's possibly the least embarrassing Old Spice ad parody ever. Kudos to Joe for resisting the urge to ride a staffer dressed as a cow.
Lisa Murkowski's write-in candidacy in Alaska after a Tea Party upset has transformed her from "establishment incumbent to renegade underdog." She could win. Or she could just split the Democratic vote. Or the Republican. No one actually knows.
Watch out, world. Lisa Murkowski is running as a write-in candidate, and she doesn't care who she pisses off.
Incumbent Lisa Murkowski ended her fight for the Republican nomination for Senate against Tea Party Candidate Joe Miller, following extensive Tea Party-funded advertising questioning her conservatism — including her relatively pro-choice positions — as well as Sarah Palin's Miller endorsement.
"You have to be rich or weird," suggested John Hockenberry on NPR this morning, referring to last night's primaries. In Alaska's surprisingly too-close-to-call Republican Senate primary, though, a Palin endorsement and anti-choice politics seemed to tip the scales.
