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Another Palin-pick bites the dust. #MadMooseDisease
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Beat me to it.
Still… ain’t it great? Heck of a job, Honey Cari-BooBoo!
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Seven paragraphs before it is mentioned that it was Joe Miller whom he defeated?
J101?
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Wonder if Tea Party Joe will get the message this time?
Heckuvajob, Sarah.
Another Palinista bites the dust.
I struggle to race money too. It’s so darn fast!
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Even Alaskans don’t care who the Whore of Babble On endorses
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She’s 36 percent favorable there, 55 percent unfavorable. To know her is not to love her.
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“…the latest mainstream Republican to turn back a tea party challenger…”
How far Republicans have come from the Contract With America promise to establish term limits.
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Treadwell, who struggled to race money after Sullivan jumped in
Now making the far turn, it’s Jackson on the twenty in the lead, with Grant on the fifty close behind. Coming into the straight it’s still Jackson in the lead, but here comes a real sleeper, Jefferson on the two, closing fast on the outside. But it’s Lincoln on the five by a nose and a beard at the wire.
Tune in tomorrow as we race more money on TPM, your home of homophonia.
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30-year-old Nickolas Zimin cast a vote for Dan Sullivan in the primary. He then explained his thinking:
He wants whoever is elected to the Senate to get as much federal money as they can for Alaska schools, though he’s not sure who he will vote for in the general election.
“I have to do some more research,” he said.
Yeah, Nickolas, you do need to do some more research. How do you think educational funds are allocated? Do you think it’s about having a Senator who persuades the other Senators to give money to Alaska, or will caucus apportionment drive the approach Congress takes to pretty much all programs?
Glad he’s still declaring himself undecided, but listening to people who are late, late (October late) undecided explain their thought processes is like nails on a chalkboard.
Still can’t use the furniture and name plaque for the door.
Yeah, but you’re assuming an intelligent vote on issues. Zimin’s comments, no matter how naive given the way the Capitol actually works, at least show a working brain; but what the GOP have in Sullivan is just about the closest approximation to Gen. Eric R.E. Publican imaginable: Harvard econ summa cum laude, Georgetown Law cum laude, two separate stints as a Bushie too short and obscure to allow any shit to accumulate on his resume, looks like a poster for what a Marine in his late 40s looks like in full Sparta mythology plus he IS one, a brief gig with the very-late Palin administration but endorsed on a bipartisan basis as competent AND without Palin crap all over him, again didn’t stay long enough to allow shit to mess up his resume, been everywhere, connected to everything, but really done nothing – all in all, a Rove wet dream, set up for multiple terms before the inevitable corruption and K Street moola starts to build up in any noticeable way.
Yeah, it’s early here at the Election Central but I’m picking that Alaska Senate seat to go red to Dan “Hollow Man” Sullivan.
Once again a Palin nod is magic…er, tragic.
sarah says, go joe!
he gone.
Let’s never forget how she got Delaware to lose a sure-bet Republican Senate seat in 2010 by favoring Christine “I’m not a witch” O’Donnell over Mike Castle.
The teabaggers enjoy a good ass kickin’ and hold it as a badge of honor. Losing somehow means winning to them even when it’s a retreaded loser.
The law of averages says that they are going to win one every now and then and the entire teabagger base enthusiastically gets out to vote against their own interests reliably, so they’ve got that going for them.
Teabaggers are stupid.
I didn’t intend to say I believe in the hypothetical rational actor in voting behavior.
That at least gets diluted one order to “perceived self-interest,” and then again a second order into “heuristic analysis of what [political candidate X] will (be willing/able to) do if elected.”
Thanks for the condensed bio, though. Stuffed shirt, maybe, but it explains why he came out of wherever he came from (AK AG, yes, but little relative experience in-state I’ve been hearing for a while) to win the Senate primary 4 years removed from the Miller-Murkowski shit show.
I don’t think Begich is a bad candidate. But I think it all comes down to Anchorage GOTV, and maybe even community-directed Dem GOTV among whatever pockets exist in places like Fairbanks and Juneau (where I don’t imagine there is a huge crop of unlikely or tweener voters to harvest, as it’s small and Its Business Is Government). If the incumbent needs a boost to get through, and in the weird media/geographic terrain Alaska provides especially post- Citizens United and McCutheon, I agree that it’s hard not to see Sullivan as having the edge at least for now.
Any real polling in AK will begin in September, though. We’ll see.