10-01-2010, 08:49 PM
Grace62 wrote:
Polls out of Alaska showing upswing for Mukowski write-in bid
If she wins, then my guess in another thread that she wouldn't win will have been wrong. It would be good to see a Tea Party candidate get defeated, but, if Murkowski does win, I strongly doubt that it will make any functional difference in the Senate. If elected, she'll be welcomed back into to the fold as a Republican even though in name she will technically be independent. (I suppose, though, there is a small chance that if Democrats maintain control of the senate that they might offer her a choice committee chairmanship to get her to caucus with them and an even tinier, itsy-bitsier chance that she would take them up on it.) By pre-Tea Party standards she was/is a pretty conservative Republican. If Collins and Snowe (about the only Republican senators that could be considered even reasonably close to moderate by pre-Tea Party standards) almost always toe the party line, you can be confident that Murkowski would do the same.