(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
This poll is a month old but it’s circulating today for some reason, and I hadn’t seen it before. It’s something.
The assumption all along has been that Murkowski is bulletproof in Alaska, partly because she’s a long-time incumbent and partly because the state has a new ranked-choice voting system that should help her — in certain circumstances. It’ll protect her from having to face an exclusively Republican electorate in a primary, at least. She’s crossed Trump repeatedly, first by not supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to SCOTUS, later by voting to convict him at his impeachment trial, and has criticized him frequently along the way. But it was thought that Murkowski enjoyed enough goodwill at home from centrists of both parties that she could squeak through to another term. A politician capable of winning a statewide race in a