I’ve said numerous times that Ted Stevens would be re-elected to three or four additional terms even after he kicks the bucket. This will barely even make a blip on his chances in November.
When it comes to electing members of Congress, Alaskans are really kind of pathetic.
I agree with you about Palin, and it’s especially striking given the history of electing Republican governors up there since the 1990s. Did you know the GOP nominee for Governor in 1990 finished third?
Do they have lawns in Alaska?
Yep, and in fact the last summer we lived there we had ours re-seeded—just in time to have to put the house on the market so we could move down here.
The Alaskan Independence Party—a bona fide secessionist party, at least back then—nominated Republican Wally Hickel (former governor who had left to become Nixon’s Interior secretary) and won the November election.
Hickel reverted to the GOP after the election, but the party’s establishment didn’t get the hint and nominated another liberal in 1994 who finished second behind Phony Tony Knowles (D). In 1998 the GOP nominee turned out to be a real nutcase whom the party finally repudiated but not in time to get him off the ballot. The “real” Republican that year was a write-in candidate.
