Sorry about the delay in posting my column early this morning, but today is the first day of school for my middle school child, plus there were some computer glitches this morning.

The results are still coming in for the U.S. Senate Republican primary in Alaska, but it’s not looking too good for U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski.

As I am writing this commentary, she trails Joe Miller by about 1960 votes with 429 of 438 precincts reporting. According to some reports in Alaska, there were about 16,000 absentee ballots sent out and only about 7,600 have been returned, plus some of the rural votes have not been counted yet. It may be a week or so before we know the winner. Supposedly, Alaska has until September 8 to count all the votes.

Murkowski was targeted by the Tea Party as not being conservative enough for their liking – probably for the same old worn-out campaign theme: abortion. Murkowski is pro-choice.

The darlings of the Tea Party (Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee) did robo-calls for Miller and the Tea Party pumped in $600,000 for ads against Murkowski – which buys a lot of time on the airways in Alaska. Continue reading →