after losing her republican primary, alaska s republican lisa murkowski launched a write-in campaign to get through the seat. she s now being called the apparent winner. nbc s tracie potts joins us from washington with the latest. tracie, good morning. lynn. good morning. it was a hard-fought win. it s difficult to win these national elections as a write-in candidate, but it appears this morning that is exactly what lisa murkowski has done. for the first time since strom thurman won as a democrat in 1954. this is a big tea party loss. she put a lot of money and support with the tea party to get involved with the opponent s campaign, joe miller. they won the primary, but it looks now like lisa murkowski may have won the general election. here s part of what she said during her victory speech last night. alaskans knew exactly what they were doing, and they showed their intent with every let er that they put down on that ballot. back here another hard-fought win. we now kn