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It looks like Joe Miller’s lead against the incumbent Lisa Murkowski will hold in yet another, and arguably, the most surprising upset of 2010 so far. While there are an estimated 8,000 to 12,000 absentee ballots sent out the Murkowski campaign did not make any concerted effort to generate absentee votes and the  outstanding ballots are not all Republican ballots. So how did this happen? The pollsters and analysts all had predicted an easy victory for the incumbent. Well as in any of these “perfect storm” scenarios, the reasons were multifaceted. This is 2010 and there is an anti-incumbent sentiment out there. Joe Miller was a relative unknown…

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How Joe Miller Surprised Lisa Murkowski

About Tom White

Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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