U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski will take nothing for granted in this re-election as she avoids a repeat of her loss in 2010 with a comeback in the general, however, tomorrow, she is expected to win the Republican primary.
Murkowski lost to Joe Miller in 2010 but came back in the general election and won on a write-in campaign. She says she doesn’t want to put her friends and supporters in that place again and she’s campaigning as if she were in the toughest race she’s ever been in.
At the end of July, it was said Murkowski had collected nearly $2.5 million and throughout her entire campaign, she’s been placing advertisements on radios and in newspapers all over Alaska.
Murkowski has a reputation as being modest, but this time around she’s portraying herself as more practical, according to the Associated Press. She wants to get more things done, such as working on energy bills and voting rights, always putting Alaska’s interests first.
In tomorrow’s primary election, Senator Murkowski will be facing Democratic candidates Edgar Blatchford and Ray Metcalfe, Republican candidates Paul Kendall, Thomas Lamb, and Bob Lochner, and Libertarian Cean Stevens.