“I think he risks alienating his base,” says Brian O’Donohue, chairman of the journalism department at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. “He’s an individual that’s been very critical of activist judges and yet he seems to be very tenaciously exploiting any argument that can be made legally to overturn what appears to be straightforward voter intent.”
Michael Carey, a longtime political watcher and columnist for the Anchorage Daily News, says this could kill any future political career whatsoever and doubts he would be able to raise the funds necessary.
“It seems to be that Miller is getting more and more desperate as time passes and as a practical matter there is no way to win, but he can make a big mess of how he loses and he’s in the process of creating ill will as he proceeds,” Carey said.
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