Sen. Lisa Murkowski doesn’t want to lose her Senate seat, so at first she tried to win the primary fair-and-square, even avoiding going negative. Now that she’s a write-in candidate instead of on the ballot as a Republican, she’s shouting “extremist” from Alaska’s snowy mountaintops and using the same arguments against Republican nominee Joe Miller as the Democrats are. It seems like an obvious strategy — until you look at the numbers and listen to party operatives on both sides who say she just can’t win.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=120925