According to SSP's DavidNYC (http://www.swingstateproject.com/)Fmr. Democratic Governor Tony Knowles is going to run agenst Republican Governor Frank Murkowski or whoever the GOP nominee is. Tony Knowles will easily clear his primary field out and is a top-tier challenger to Murkowski. On the GOP side Murkowski will have to deal with a hard Republican challenge for the nomination. Murkowski is very unpopular his approval ratings in the 20's (2nd worst in the country). I personally wanted Knowles to run for the senate in 2008 but indeed this is great news for the Governors race. I think this is now at least a Lean D race.