For those who don't remember what happened in the Senate race Alaska in 2010, here's a brief account:
The November general election in Alaska was preceded by primary elections which were held on August 24, 2010.
Scott McAdams, the Mayor of Sitka, became the Democratic Party nominee and Joe Miller, a conservative attorney and former federal magistrate, became the Republican nominee after defeating incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary. Miller was endorsed by the Tea Party movement and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Murkowski in defiance, announced that regardless of her defeat in the primary, she would run in the general election as a write-in candidate.
She is of course, the daughter of the well known Republican, Frank Murkowski, United States Senator from Alaska from 1981 until 2002 and the eighth Governor of Alaska from 2002 until 2006. She already had the name recognition.
Murkowski garnered more than 100,000 write-in votes in the general election, 8,000 of which were challenged by Miller for various errors including minor misspellings.
Even if the challenged votes were all thrown out, Murkowski still had a lead of over 2,100 votes when the counting was done.
I personally have never in my lifetime, seen somebody win as a write-in candidate.
This just shows you how Alaskans love the Murkowski dynasty.
