The media has not been making as much of a fuss about this as one would expect, but has anyone been paying attention to the polls in Alaska? After losing her party's nomination, Lisa Murkowski could well be poised to make history as the first write-in candidate to win a major election!
OK, I haven't sent out the fact checkers yet on whether there ever has been a write-in victory in the US or not, let alone in a high-profile Senate race. Awaiting those facts, it seems that since her Republican challenger has hired members of some obscure Alaskan militia who roughed up a reporter asking tough questions, Ms. Murkowski's candidacy has rebounded in terms of viability.
It seems that perhaps many an Alaskan tomorrow may suffer from writers cramp scrawling her surname on the ballot. According to a poll by Hays Research Group that shows Joe Miller finishing with 23% of the vote, "Write In Candidate" is set to claim victory with 34% of the total (the Democrat Scott McAdams is predicted to come in 2nd place with 29% of votes).
This poll has teabaggers fuming, of course... they don't like to think that the pollsters are playing fair here.
But still, on the face of it, assuming there are fewer than 5% of write in votes going to Mickey Mouse, and Jack Sh*t, etc., and assuming that voters in Alaska CAN spell Murkowski correctly, and assuming the Hays poll is at all accurate (the largest assumption all told) the pens may well prove mightier than the sordid!
(Trademark that for me will you?)
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