I don’t think it will be long, since the party has recalled its attack dogs. Miller can’t afford a prolonged fight.
Norm Coleman was also in a two-party race, and so was getting massive support from the Republican Party: The longer they could drag that one out, the more it would hurt the Democrats. Here, though, they’re both Republicans, so dragging it out will hurt nobody but themselves.
Miller surely doesn’t care about hurting the Republican party, though I’m sure he cares about his wallet.
Who’s paying for this? If it’s the state OR the Republican party, Miller will contest it until he runs out of appeals or the party pulls the money plug, at which point he’ll start attacking the party. If it’s his own campaign funds, he’ll be dine this week.
Murkowski has now passed Miller’s vote count, and there are still 8,000 write-ins to go.
Well, Miller’s already taken to soliciting donations to help with the legal battle,
The Tea Party has apparently developed a proprietary type of mathematics, with the basic units being the “Miller” and the “not Murkowski”.
And apparently they also counted up a bunch of absentees yesterday, and only have about 600 left. Plus whatever else trickles in today and tomorrow.
It’s all over but the posturing. And me attempting to cherry-pick my OP in order to prove that I was mostly right. 
Exactly. The Minnesota recount battle* was all about keeping Al Franken out of the Senate seat he’d obviously won. This benefited the Republican Party, so they poured money into his legal battle, even knowing that it had no chance of success. Keeping Murkowski out of the Senate doesn’t benefit the Republican Party (and, for all I know, Alaska allows a winner to be seated provisionally earlier than Minnesota does), so they won’t fund him. I can think of one prominent politician with a PAC that has deep pockets, little loyalty to the Republican establishment, and a very strong grudge against Murkowski, and who might just be crazy enough to try. That would be fun.
*The 2008-09 Minnesota Senate recount battle, not the forthcoming 2010 (-11??) Minnesota gubernatorial recount battle.
I can think of a wealthy Repub that is probably too busy watching “Dancing with the Stars” to get involved. Besides Sarah doesn’t spend, she collects.
I doubt it. Even Sarah knows a dead fish when she sees one. She’d have nothing to gain by delaying the seating of a Republican senator and wouldn’t want to burn any bridges before she kicks off her 2012 campaign.
FWIW, Sarah Palin did contribute $5,000 to the recount effort.
$5k out of how much?
That’s like what she makes cutting one fart behind a podium. It’s like you or me tossing a dime into a wishing well.
Hence, the “FWIW.” I wasn’t posting that to praise her, only to say she did put her sofa cushion change where her mouth was.
MIller’s position is no longer tenable. If he had some sort of double-secret recount aided by a court ruling, he would forever be tainted. It is time and past time for him to be a good sport.
Riiiiiight. 
Miller is now asking for a hand recountof ALL ballots cast. He says the state’s electronic counting is “suspect”. Apparently it was just peachy in the primary, though. Since he can’t possible recoup 10,000 votes, this is just harassment.
Haven’t been paying attention to this race (and this candidate), have you?
This is beyond ridiculous. She is over 10,000 votes ahead of him. Even if every one of his challenged votes is accepted, she is over 2,000 votes ahead of him. There are 600 ballots left to count. It is impossible for him to catch up.