What Were They Thinking

It seems that Lisa Murkowski has defeated Joe Miller for the Alaska Senate seat, and has managed to do that while running a write in campaign, which rarely works. I guess that many Alaskans had second thoughts about voting for the thuggish Miller, especially after his security guards attacked and handcuffed a reporter back in October. If so, Alaskans are probably smarter than people in many other parts of the country.

Of course, many things about this election don't add up. The Democrats lost 6 seats in the Senate, by that measure they should have only lost about 20 seats in the House. Maybe the mistake many Democrat Reps made was in running as "fiscal conservatives" thereby alienating their base and ceding the high ground to the Repubs.