Monkey business in Alaska

  Hm. The Justice Department actually acted quickly when it came to a lawsuit making sure Lisa Murkowski has the greatest advantage in today's election. 
  Here's analysis of the percentage of voting over at Powerline. There's more over there.

Meanwhile, a PPP poll shows Miller in the lead with 37 percent of the vote. Murkowski and McAdams have 30 percent each. Only 3 percent are undecided. The sample size is in excess of 1,500.

By contrast, a poll by Intergroup Communications shows Murkowski with 36 percent, Miller with 34 percent, and McAdams with 22 percent. However, when the responses were weighted to match current Alaskan voter registration statistics results were: Murkowski 39 percent; Miller 28 percent; McAdams 24 percent.

That poll, though, was conducted for the Murkowski campaign. Moreover, the sample size was less than 500.

Short version: nobody knows. Maybe those 150 extra write in votes will help confuse things.

Fagan, who is credited for helping increase the number of write-in senate candidates to about 150 by urging listeners to file the paperwork to become write-in candidates, was accused of participating in “electioneering,” by former broadcaster John Tracy. Tracy, who now runs an advertising and public relations company that has been hired to make commercials for the Murkowski campaign, told the Anchorage Daily News that Fagan “crossed a line from being inflammatory to doing something that actually tries to manipulate an election.”