{"id":188480,"date":"2010-09-18T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/18\/murkowski-to-mount-write-in-bid-for-alaska-senate\/"},"modified":"2010-09-18T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T03:17:00","slug":"murkowski-to-mount-write-in-bid-for-alaska-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/18\/murkowski-to-mount-write-in-bid-for-alaska-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Murkowski to Mount Write-In Bid for Alaska Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juneaublogger.com\/updates\/?p=5544\">Pass the popcorn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who lost Alaska\u2019s GOP primary last month in a stunning upset to a tea-party backed rival, announced Friday that she\u2019s mounting a write-in candidacy in a bid to hold onto her job.<\/p>\n<p>Murkowksi told supporters at a late afternoon rally in Anchorage that she\u2019s worried about Republican nominee Joe Miller\u2019s extremist views, as well as the Democratic candidate\u2019s inexperience.<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows Miller\u2019s surprise win in last month\u2019s primary. Murkowski acknowledged she made mistakes during the primary campaign, but promised she\u2019ll be more aggressive this time in running against Miller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that she will talke more votes from teabagger Miller than remarkably-liberal-for-Alaska McAdams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pass the popcorn: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who lost Alaska\u2019s GOP primary last month in a stunning upset to a tea-party backed rival, announced Friday that she\u2019s mounting a write-in candidacy in a bid to hold onto her job. Murkowksi told supporters at a late afternoon rally in Anchorage that she\u2019s worried about Republican nominee &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}