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Club For Growth Touts Tight Three-Way Race in Alaska

By | 10.15.10 | 9:25 am

The Club For Growth, which is backing GOP candidate Joe Miller in his Alaska Senate bid, released the results of a new survey it commissioned yesterday that show an incredibly tight three-way race has taken shape:

Our recent survey in Alaska uncovered a VERY close race in the Senate

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Support for Alaska ‘Super PAC’ Backing Murkowski Comes Entirely From Federal Contractors

By | 10.13.10 | 4:19 pm

More data are in concerning the new Super PAC, Alaskans Standing Together, formed to back Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in her write-in re-election bid for Senate. The group’s FEC filings reveal that all nine of its contributors are Alaska Native corporations that have previously secured business through federal contracts. More…

New ‘Super PAC’ Comes Out Swinging in Favor of Murkowski

By | 10.12.10 | 5:45 pm

A new committee called Alaskans Standing Together is providing some major help to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in her longshot write-in bid for re-election. The group filed last month with the FEC as a ”Super PAC” — the new name for political action committees that have declared their intention to More…

Tea Party Express Will Launch Its Pre-Election Bus Tour in Nevada

By | 09.28.10 | 5:21 pm

Tea Party Express, the California-based organization famous for propelling Nevada’s Sharron Angle — and later Alaska’s Joe Miller and Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell — over entrenched Republicans to capture the GOP Senate nominations in their respective states, has announced another cross-country bus tour and series of campaign rallies that will More…

Murkowski Will Not Be Stripped of Energy Committee Position

By | 09.22.10 | 2:55 pm

It turns out, reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) would be stripped of her ranking Republican spot on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee were premature.

Murkowski Up With First Ad of Her Write-in Bid for Senate

By | 09.22.10 | 10:01 am

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is up with the first advertisement of her write-in bid to hold her seat representing Alaska in the U.S. Senate.

Murkowski Out as Ranking Republican on Energy Committee

By | 09.21.10 | 4:04 pm

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, despite her write-in campaign to keep her Senate seat, will lose her spot as the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Murkowski Looks to Oil Industry As She Begins Write-In Campaign

By | 09.20.10 | 9:45 am

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who lost the Alaska Republican Senate primary to Tea Party darling Joe Miller last month, is calling on the oil industry for help in organizing the write-in campaign to win back her Senate seat.

Will Palin’s Endorsement Change The Odds in Delaware?

By | 09.10.10 | 9:31 am

On late Tuesday, a Sarah Palin “retweet” with favorable words for Delaware GOP Senate primary candidate Christine O’Donnell provoked a controversy: was a retweet the same as a tweet? More importantly, did it count as an endorsement? O’Donnell, for her part, stayed coy: “No, that’s a retweet. That’s a, More…

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Tea Party Favorite O’Donnell Falters in Delaware

By | 09.10.10 | 6:45 am

After Tea Party candidate Joe Miller’s shocking upset over Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary, the media’s attention shifted quickly to an unlikely location — the politically staid state of Delaware. Seemingly overnight, the press discovered Christine O’Donnell, the perennial (and unsuccessful) far-right candidate challenging longtime More…