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    Why this Republican senator has been able to forge her own path

    Jun 17, 2019 4 minutes

    This dusty riverside town of 6,000 feels a long way from Washington, D.C. It’s about as far as you can go without leaving the continental United States.

    But many voters in Bethel, Alaska, say they feel a strong connection to their U.S. senator, Lisa Murkowski. In their minds, she’s popular and present, an Alaskan politician with a voice at the table in Washington who doesn’t forget them.

    “As long as she’s working for the state of Alaska, people support her,” says Kathryn Bowerman, taking a break from crocheting in Bethel’s public library.

    The support from Bethel’s voters is a window into Senator Murkowski’s political viability – and her vulnerability. That’s because Ms Bowerman, like many here, is a Democrat and

    A genuine swing vote‘Following her own moral compass’

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