Senate candidate Joe Miller expects a boost from conservative voters drawn to the ballot booth by Ballot Measure 2, which requires doctors considering an abortion for a girl under 18 to notify the girl's parents.

From Kyle Hopkins in Anchorage--

Earlier Erika Bolstad blogged about “the Palin effect” in this year’s elections nationwide -- how would candidates co-signed by the former governor fare here and in the Lower 48? Here’s a couple questions closer to home:

-- Will the presence of Ballot Measure 2, which introduces the abortion issue on a statewide ballot for the first time in memory, draw in single-issue voters and aid conservative candidates like U.S. Senate hopeful Joe Miller?

Miller thinks so. He and Gov. Sean Parnell were out waving signs along the Seward Highway between Benson and Northern Lights Boulevard just now, part of a mostly Republican block of campaign supporters. Many of the conservative candidates swung “Yes on 2” placards along with signs for their chosen candidate: Parnell, Walker, Miller, etc.

“Prop 2 will bring out some voters that will otherwise not vote,” said Miller, who expects those voters to favor him over incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who has opposed overturning Roe v Wade.

-- Back to Palin: She endorsed Miller but has been nearly silent on Parnell, her old running mate who took her job when she resigned last year. But she hasn’t appeared in his ads or campaigned for him on the road. Was Parnell hoping Palin would play a larger role in her campaign?

He says no. “She said she’d help us any way she could. … She co-hosted a fund-raiser in the Valley.”

What more could she do, he asked. I mentioned she could appear in ads. On television. But Parnell expressed no hard feelings.

“I welcomed any role she wanted to play. With her traveling, I hadn’t had a chance to talk to her, but she stepped forward and I was very appreciative of that.”

Every candidate I've seen so far today is wearing jeans, by the way.

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Sign wavers could stop and buy baleen in the Sears parking lot.

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Polls about to close. Off to election central.