ultimately? what is your sense. >> both candidates say they'll caucus with the republicans in the senate. if joe miller loses it will be a blow to the tea party and will show they cannot really carry their strengths into a general election. against the moderate sitting senator. if murkowski loses, i think that will really shake up the earmark and pork-barrel culture in washington because she was a senior member of the appropriations committee and if alaska which gets a lot of federal largess does not elect a senator, though she brought home lots of slabs of bacon it may be a change in the cultural politics of alaska. bill: that is interesting. i have to run. you have written a lot about voter fraud. do you see that at the -- as a possibility in alaska, given the dynamics of the race, on a widespread scale or not. >> there is traditionally not a major problem outside of a couple of indian villages and i would say voter confusion will be a problem, sometimes you cannot tell where the bureaucratic incompetence ends