Has Alaska received more attention than ever before in the past two years?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Not in a good way. It's kind of seen as the laughingstock of the country now.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Not in a good way. It's kind of seen as the laughingstock of the country now.

19th in unemployment (7.9%).  Positive changes in real GDP (+3.5%).  Seems to be doing pretty decent to me.

We're talking in terms of the attention that it is getting now which is not for that. It is for Sarah Palin who is seen as a joke. And people like Ted Stevens, Don Young and Joe Miller aren't exactly great faces to put on your state either.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Not in a good way. It's kind of seen as the laughingstock of the country now.

19th in unemployment (7.9%).  Positive changes in real GDP (+3.5%).  Seems to be doing pretty decent to me.

We're talking in terms of the attention that it is getting now which is not for that. It is for Sarah Palin who is seen as a joke. And people like Ted Stevens, Don Young and Joe Miller aren't exactly great faces to put on your state either.

Palin left a while ago... I don't think people really connect her to Alaska as much anymore.

She is still the main reason for the premise in the OP.

And, for what it's worth, Stevens conviction was voided.

Well I doubt most people care anymore than that OJ Simpson legally is not guilty of murder. Plus being voided on a technicality doesn't change much for one's actual guilt.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

But does the average person care? Especially since it remains obvious that Stevens was a corrupt scumbag regardless.