"JUNEAU, Alaska - Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday became the first Senate candidate in more than 50 years to win a write-in campaign, emerging victorious over her tea party rival following a painstaking, week-long count of hand-written votes.

The victory completes a remarkable comeback for the Republican after her humiliating loss in the GOP primary to Joe Miller.

Her victory became clear when Alaska election officials confirmed they had only about 700 votes left to count, putting Murkowski in safe territory to win re-election. Murkowski is flying back from Washington to Alaska on Wednesday to make an "exciting announcement," proclaiming in an e-mail to supporters that the campaign "made history."

Murkowski has a lead of about 10,000 votes, a total that includes 8,153 ballots in which Miller observers challenged over things like misspellings, extra words or legibility issues.

It was not immediately clear how Miller will proceed. He and his advisers have vowed to take legal action over what they contend is an unfair tally in Murkowski's favor, but Miller has maintained he'll stop fighting if the math doesn't work in his favor. Miller's campaign didn't immediately return a message seeking comment.

Miller's loss is a major rebuke for Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate who backed Miller and has long had a tense relationship with the Murkowski family. Miller's defeat means Palin couldn't deliver in her home state for a candidate she roundly endorsed."

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20101117/BREAKING/101119791/-1/news02?Title=Murkowski-wins-Senate-recount-in-Alaska

You know it was a bad election when the left wingers are cheering a sitting republican senators victory..

What percentage of the vote did the dumbocrat get?

haha...

Ha, Alaska was not going Dem anyway...no, this is about:



And you can do your own Google...Won't waste any time on that.

She is hot, ain't she.

And, your not half bad lookin' yourself for being 88 years old.

As for the topic>>> Great to see socialists are happy to see a Repub win.

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T-bagger...?

The tea parties are many... Those with names and titles are but the tip of the ice berg.

If I had been living in Alaska I would have voted for the lady...

Scuse the expression but SHE GOT BIG BRASS ONES.

I was impressed by the way she hung in.

I reckon a lot of the members of the REAL tea party thought so also...

Miller is barking up the empty tree on that one... and so was the 'tea party' that backed him.

The Tea Party is still finding its way, give it time to sort itself out and it will dominate. I am a Tea Bagger and I Tea Bag those who oppose me

I wonder how many people realize that the real TEA BAGS are politicians.

A tea bag is something you throw in the river to protest taxes and 'lordships'.

(the EPA would probably decide that such a thing is 'polution')

Well.

All righty then.