Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski unexpectedly left early from President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night.Murkowski wrote in a Tweet, “Watching #SOTU from hospital waiting room — our youngest son is undergoing surprise…
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JUNEAU, Alaska — Republican Joe Miller on Friday ended his legal fight over Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat, conceding the race to his bitter rival, incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski.Miller’s decision, announced at a news conference in Anchorage…
Christine O’Donnell, a GOP power grab and Michele Bachmann: What a fitting news cycle for the last HuffPost Hill of 2010! Christine O’Donnell publicly commented on her perennial arch nemeses (George Soros, the federal government and rent). …
JUNEAU, Alaska — Sen. Lisa Murkowski was officially named the winner of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race Thursday, following a legal battle that lasted longer than the write-in campaign she waged to keep her job.Gov. Sean Parnell and Lt. Gov….
JUNEAU, Alaska — Republican Joe Miller said he won’t stand in the way of incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski being certified the winner of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, but he vowed to continue his legal fight over the state’s handling of the v…
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Alaska Supreme Court delivered another stinging setback to Republican Joe Miller, refusing to overturn election results that favored his GOP rival, Lisa Murkowski, in the state’s U.S. Senate race.The high court on …
Lisa Murkowski isn’t gunning down caribou on national TV like that other famous Alaskan, but the Republican lawmaker is going rogue in the Senate just weeks after staging the most stunning back-from-the-dead political win of the 2010 cycle.R…
As Congress brings to a close its lame-duck session, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski has emerged from her historic write-in campaign as a key swing vote in the Senate on issues backed by the Obama administration.Read More…
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JUNEAU, Alaska — A judge has all but ended tea party-backed Republican Joe Miller’s hopes of getting legal relief in state court in his long-shot challenge of how the state counted write-in votes for incumbent Lisa Murkowski in their Senat…
While the White House spent the day circulating desperate statements in support of its tax framework (it’s not just the president, it’s also a member!), Congress briefly shifted its attention to other urgent matters demanding immediate acqui…
A state court judge has moved a lawsuit over Alaska’s still-disputed U.S. Senate race from Fairbanks to the state capital, Juneau.Judge Douglas Blankenship said Monday that the case brought by Republican Joe Miller raises statewide issues an…
JUNEAU, Alaska — History, the GOP, the tea party, Sarah Palin and her own mouthful of a name worked against her. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski conquered them all Wednesday, becoming the first Senate candidate in more than 50 years to …
JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski widened her lead over bitter rival Joe Miller on Tuesday, increasing pressure on the GOP nominee to decide whether to fight what could be a losing battle.With Murkowski holding a 10,400-vote …
JUNEAU, Alaska — Sen. Lisa Murkowski is holding a lead in Alaska’s still-undecided Senate race as election workers prepare to count more write-in ballots.About 8,800 ballots were to be tallied Tuesday. On Monday, election officials sai…
Alaska’s undecided Senate contest is building up to what is looking likely to be a chilly, marathon finish, and the snow recently blanketing the state has only a little to do with it.With Democrat Scott McAdams officially out of the race and…
Alaska’s three-way Senate fight has quickly become one of the hottest showdowns to watch of the races set to be decided on Tuesday. Since the state’s August primary when Tea Party-backed Joe Miller swiped the state’s Republican nomination fr…
