Midterm Election Results Spotlight

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Just Do the Wave

Election Day has come and gone and still some races have been left uncalled. In this historic election, truly every vote matters and being such, I wanted to wait until all of the races had been decided. Yet, now over two weeks after election day, we finally have concrete numbers for some of the last races. In the midterm election, that saw the turn over of the United States House of Representatives by a sixty-one seat swing, was truly a wave election that rippled around the entire country. This post will highlight the most important and interesting races that Center Right Nation has followed throughout the summer and fall.

The Death Throes

Is she Dead? No, not Quite. She's Still Kickin'.

This is the story that never ends, and it goes on and on my friends. Seriously. A month has come and gone since Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) suffered a devastating loss in her bid to seek reelection as a United States Senator from Alaska. Her opponent was the no name attorney from Fairbanks, Joe Miller (R-AK) who won the bitterly contested primary by just 2,002 votes (about 1.8% of the vote). His sudden success and momentum have been attributed to the last minute flood of support and money from the Tea Party Express as well as an endorsement from former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK). Yet it now seems that Lisa Murkowski is unwilling to accept the fact that she lost and has announced her bid to run as a write-in candidate as a last ditch effort to reclaim her Senate seat. Are he actions an act of unprecedented courage or an unwillingness to admit defeat? Let's examine the facts!

An Upset for the Ages (Maybe)

A New Comeback Kid?

Just a few weeks ago, the Alaskan Republican primary election for United States Senate seemed all but wrapped up. It looked to everyone like Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was going to clinch the nomination and be the heavy favorite in the general election. Yet as of today it looks like the daughter of the former governor of Alaska may concede her race to the previously unknown attorney Joe Miller (R-AK). With the help from a few key endorsements and nearly $600,000 of Tea Party money, it seems Alaska may have a new Senator in Joe Miller.