the write-in votes. now, out of 160 write-in candidates, they are counting which votes were for murkowski. her camp is acould you seeing miller s of trying to boost her numbers by challenging numbers like this one with just minor ledgability issues. miller s camp claims it s simply challenging votes that don t meet the letter of the correct spelling law. but the state s election director says if the name is phonetic to murkowski, she is counting it for murkowski. it turns out that s a very large percentage. dan springer with the news live for us in juneau, alaska. dan, you are getting to witness these challenges. how does it seem? well it seems to me and a lot of observers here that almost everyone who voted in this election for a write-in candidate meant their vote for lisa murkowski. there is a few notable exceptions. did i see one today for mickey mouse and one was for donald duck yesterday. but almost all of the votes
forcing thousands out of their homes, officials say she could go at blow at any moment. here s martha. martha: well, alaska senate candidate bill miller admitting he was once disciplined for violating policy while working as local government attorney, he revealed during a debate yesterday he was suspended once for three days for participating in a private poll during his lunch hour, he says he learned from that mistake, the admission came after a judge ordered miller s personnel filed released, miller faces democrat scott mcadams and current republican senator lisa murkowski, running as a write-in candidate in this tight race. the latest poll average shows this is a nail biter. take a look at these numbers. miller has what was once a decent lead, now just a one point lead over lisa murkowski who people would have to physically write her name in on that ballot but this one shaping up to be much tighter than anyone
states they can make a little bit of difference. richard wolfe at the white house. we ll fill new on the heated race and the arrest in alaska. kelly joins us to talk about this. we want to start with the joe miller story. this was a reporter on the scene taken away by miller s private security? that s pretty much now it goes. it was a town hall meeting that went about an hour. the reporter for a blog called alaskadispatch.com followed limited. they claim he got into an altercation with someone other than miller but made threatening gestures towards miller. you see some pictures of what was going on there. miller had his own security. he said the town hall meeting required that they provide security. that security detained, not arrested because they re not police officer, detained the
reporters. miller says he s gotten accustomed to bloggers being confrontational but he never suspected anything like this. miller making the allegation that this person was trying to provoke a confrontation in order to videotape it. it s the kind of environment we re seeing more and more with people with small cameras and there s a much more feisty environment around candidates, especially those who are sometimes evasive to reporters. miller says he was answering lots of questions there. it s an unusual example of how things can cross the line. it s something that we don t often see. kelly, speaking of things we don t often see, in the debate with jack conway and rand paul, explain that to us and it s really dealing with old issues on the background of paul. yeah, this took a turn that few people expected. jack conway, the democrat, is running a very powerful ad about rand paul. it would off an article in gq
in and miller is mischaracterizing her votes on health care, mcadams joins her on her side. then miller says they are prying too deeply into my personal affairs. trying to find out whether my wife collected unemployment unfairly when i don t like unemployment. it is an incredible mess here. it is hot. yeah. i think in the end all of these issues tend to fall away what folks are going to focus on is conservatives are going to go out and try to elect and tea party folks the most conservative person. if i was if i could be any one of these three i would want to be joe miller. the people that are most energized are the folks in miller s camp. if you see the gallup polls and the other polls, intensity is this that group of people that are supporting miller. the other two candidates, lisa