Christian Science Monitor: If Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) does indeed emerge as the official winner of the US Senate race in Alaska, what kind of Republican will she be? Her bruising campaign to keep her seat, conducted via a write-in candidacy after she lost the GOP primary to tea party-backed Joe Miller, appears likely to shift Senator Murkowski more to the center – a Republican perhaps more akin to Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine than to the conservative Sens.-elect Rand Paul of Kentucky or Mario Rubio of…