John Dean (yes, THAT John Dean) has written a great article in support of Scott McAdams

[Blue_In_AK]

posted at Shannyn Moore's website here:

http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/miller-v-murkowski-v-mcadams-the-tea-partys-marquee-election-in-alaska-is-an-upset-in-the-making/

Alaska’s senatorial election pits Tea-Party-candidate-turned-Republican-nominee Joe Miller against the incumbent Republican Senator, Lisa Murkowski, and the Democratic Party’s nominee, Scott McAdams. The big guns of the Tea Party movement are backing Miller, and doing their best to get him elected to the U.S. Senate.

Accordingly, no less than Big Mama Grizzly herself, Sarah Palin, is cuddling and encouraging Joe as if he were an endangered cub. Joining Palin are radical Republicans like South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.

This all-out, albeit last minute, effort by the GOP mean-team makes Alaska the marquee Tea Party contest. Because Alaska is in the nation’s last time-zone, depending on how the other races unfold, we could all be looking to this election to see which party will control the U.S. Senate. But even if that issue has been resolved before Alaskan polls close, given the fact that Joe Miller is a consummate Tea Party candidate, and the Tea Party mojo have invested so heavily in him, this will still be a telling race.

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Please read the whole piece. This is SO encouraging to us. I really, really hope he's correct.


(Note that there seems to be a typo in the paragraph about Nate Silver. It should be 38 instead of 48 for Miller.)

[truebrit71]

1. Interesting piece...

..don't know whether to laugh or cry at his comment about 25% of the voting population being insane...but that sure does explain the Teabaggers...

[shockra]

2. Whoa...

Given the best estimate of the turnout for this race, 316,000 voters, if McAdams can merely do as badly as the worst statewide Democrat in Alaska history, and get 31 percent of the vote, he will still win.

Yes!:headbang:

[Cognitive_Resonance]

3. K&R for a Scott McAdams victory

http://www.scottmcadams.org/

[shockra]

4. Miller does kinda look like "a young Chuck Norris with facial hair."

I hadn't noticed that before.