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Lisa Murkowski

Republican · U.S. Senator, Alaska · Alaska · Spectrum score +20

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Lisa Murkowski is U.S. Senator, Alaska in Alaska. Political positions and ideology score +20 (Center-right). Murkowski is the last Republican you can put on a Sunday panel.

College: Georgetown University, B.A. 1980 · Willamette University College of Law, J.D. 1985
Spouse: Verne Martell (m. 1987)
Children: Two
Résumé: U.S. Senator · Alaska · 2002–
Alaska House of Representatives · 1999–2002
Attorney · Anchorage private practice · 1989–1998

Net worth: $4.8M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $1.0M
2026 raised: $7.5M
Years in office: 24

Where Lisa stands on the spectrum

Lisa Murkowski scores +20 on Spectrum’s left–right line (center-right), mixed on economic issues and mixed on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +20 · Center-right · economic +23 · social +24 · authoritarian +9

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Murkowski is the last Republican you can put on a Sunday panel. The file is dynastic Alaska: appointed, nearly dumped, write-in saved, energy-and-Native-corp funded. Independence is a product she can afford because the state is not Ohio.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$4.8M

+380% since taking office

Senate disclosure midpoint, 2024

Before office$1.0M

Now$4.8M

Appointed by her father, then won. Alaska Native-corp and energy money, a household that can survive a write-in.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $7.5M
Cash on hand: $2.9M

Top industries

Oil & gas
Alaska Native corporations
Fisheries
Lawyers

Stock holdings

Individual common stock

Energy-state book. Funds plus names that rhyme with the pipeline.

Senate disclosure, 2024 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

XOM
Exxon Mobil
Self · Alaska energy
$15K–$50K
CVX
Chevron
Self
$15K–$50K
VTI
Index funds
Self
$100K–$250K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
XOM	Exxon MobilAlaska energy	Self	$15K–$50K
CVX	Chevron	Self	$15K–$50K
VTI	Index funds	Self	$100K–$250K

Sum of ranges $130K–$350K · midpoint $240K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

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Conflicts

Energy votes in a state that is an extraction economy.
Write-in 2010 as proof she has a machine, not just a brand.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +23
Social: +24
Authoritarian: +9
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+30
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+18
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+14
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+28
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+24
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+30
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion0
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+46
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+32
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+24
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+34
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+14
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.14

Compass

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Sources

DW-NOMINATE
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.