The New Republic

Well, Jonathan, you could take a look at the local media and find out pretty easily why Miller's campaign has been imploding -- all of the above (except the beard), plus general incompetence as a candidate. If he's been getting advice on how to handle his campaign from some professional, no politician ever should pay for advice from that person. Two months of dodging and stonewalling about his former work for local government in Fairbanks has finally ended with the release of certain documents from his personnel file, which make it crystal clear that he is not the kind of person who should hold any kind of public office. There is really no way to spin out of it when you were sneaking around the office at lunchtime, using every computer you could find that wasn't password-locked to vote in an online political poll at your own website, which violated multiple ethics policies and creeped out your co-workers. And then, when caught, lied about doing it, then backed up to a partial lie, and eventually fessed up only to blame it all on the coworkers who had not properly secured their computers from him. Plus the fact that he is a loony extremist, has hypocritically gamed the system on government assistance, and displays the maturity of a 5 year old does not help his cause except with the hard-right partisans.

- JEFF FREY

October 28, 2010 at 3:29pm

This is a fascinating race, though my money is on Lisa Murkowki. I read somewhere this morning a snippet quoting Murkowski as saying that she will remain a Republican if she wins.

- liberal reformer

October 28, 2010 at 3:46pm

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- desertdog

October 28, 2010 at 4:01pm

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- RedState

October 28, 2010 at 5:35pm

Lisa has made it clear that she remains a Republican, she is just a write-in Republican candidate. There's no ambiguity about what she will do if elected. If I am sure that Miller's numbers are down into the 20%s, then I (and many other Democrats) can vote for who we want, instead of voting tactically. If Miller is going to be at 30% or possibly higher, then we must vote tactically for whichever of Murkowski/McAdams we think the most other people are voting for.

- JEFF FREY

October 28, 2010 at 8:31pm