IF ONLY MIKE CASTLE HAD DONE THE SAME:

Murkowski on cusp of win; how will she legislate? (BECKY BOHRER, 11/08/2010, AP)

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski is on the cusp of vindication after waging a high stakes — and long shot — write-in campaign to keep her job.

Initial returns show write-in ballots holding a 13,439-vote edge over GOP nominee Joe Miller, and though it’s not clear how many of those are for her or will be counted as valid, she’s confident enough in her winning to tell supporters that they’d “made history.” The write-in count starts Wednesday in Juneau.

While Mitch Daniels' state GOP was carrying everything in sight, Sarah Palin couldn't even get her pet Republican elected to the Senate.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 8, 2010 6:13 AM