In 2005 she got within 3,040 votes of him.
"I myself couldn't even think of voting for him," added Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts.
A perception that an incumbent MP had overclaimed on expenses was associated with a predicted decline of around 5percentnt in the probability of voting for him or her.
After the election, Miller refused to accept the vote tally which placed Murkowski nearly 10,300 votes ahead of him.
"Absolutely I was thinking of voting for him," said Jacqueline DiMarco, 46, who works for the federal Home Energy Assistance Program in Buffalo.
"Just this one issue will make me think of voting for him".
But she puts her chances of voting for him at "slim to none".
More than a third of his voters said they were voting for him because of their dislike for Mr. Obama, while fewer than 10 percent of Mr. Obama's supporters said they would vote for him out of dislike for Mr. Romney.
That is, the voters voted neither for him (they rejected eight of nine senate candidates he campaigned for during the week before the election)nor against him(his personal popularity remains high): they voted outside of him.
Do I expect a fair vote out of him?
