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Jim DeMint still battling to keep Murkowski from Senate
By James Rosen | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Sunday, November 21, 2010

WASHINGTON — For all his success in helping elect ultraconservatives to the Senate, Sen. Jim DeMint now must face the difficult consequences of one spectacular, all but certain failure.

DeMint, who raised $5.6 million for ultraconservative GOP candidates this year, has attached a personal appeal letter to a CONTRIBUTE banner and a photo of Miller at the top of www.senateconservatives.com , the Web site of his Senate Conservatives Fund.

DeMint’s badly damaged relationship with Murkowski also shows the tightrope he’s treading as he tries to remake the Senate in his ultraconservative image from inside the august chamber while backing anti-establishment rabble-rousers on the outside.

Murkowski blames DeMint for having cost Republicans control of the Senate by bankrolling ultraconservatives who lost general election contests that more moderate GOP candidates could have won.