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« on: September 14, 2016, 03:00:07 PM »
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http://www.adn.com/politics/2016/09/13/begich-says-hes-being-asked-to-join-senate-race-as-a-write-in-and-he-wont-rule-it-out/
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« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2016, 03:02:25 PM »
LOL. Now all we need is Scott McAdams, Mead Treadwell, Sean Parnell and Sarah Palin, and we'll have the whole crop of AK politicians in office or running for it.
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« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2016, 04:43:59 PM »
Why wouldn't he have just run as a Democrat if he wanted to get into this race? He probably wouldn't have won, but there's no way in hell running a write-in campaign is going to work.
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« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2016, 04:57:15 PM »
Senate elections in Alaska are weird.
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« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2016, 04:57:46 PM »
Do I need to start worrying about this seat?
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« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2016, 05:27:18 PM »
Quote from: Heisenberg on September 14, 2016, 04:57:46 PM
Do I need to start worrying about this seat?

Probably not, though some said the same about the Gov race in 2014.
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« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2016, 05:31:27 PM »
Quote from: Dwarven Dragon on September 14, 2016, 03:02:25 PM
LOL. Now all we need is Scott McAdams, Mead Treadwell, Sean Parnell and Sarah Palin, and we'll have the whole crop of AK politicians in office or running for it.

What about the Dans Sullivan?
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« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2016, 05:43:19 PM »
Quote from: mencken on September 14, 2016, 05:31:27 PM
Quote from: Dwarven Dragon on September 14, 2016, 03:02:25 PM
LOL. Now all we need is Scott McAdams, Mead Treadwell, Sean Parnell and Sarah Palin, and we'll have the whole crop of AK politicians in office or running for it.

What about the Dans Sullivan?
One of them is already in the Senate, the other one planned to primary Murkowski but dropped out.
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« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2016, 05:47:43 PM »
u wot m8?
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« Reply #9 on: September 14, 2016, 07:05:30 PM »
Quote from: xīngkěruì on September 14, 2016, 04:43:59 PM
Why wouldn't he have just run as a Democrat if he wanted to get into this race? He probably wouldn't have won, but there's no way in hell running a write-in campaign is going to work.

There was a Democratic Party establishment candidate, former Seward Mayor Edgar Blatchford but he lost the primary to perennial candidate Ray Metcalfe, a Republican State Representative from 30 years ago who in the interim founded and led the "Republican Moderate Party of Alaska". Even though Blatchford probably wasn't going to win, he would have ensured normal Democrats were represented in the race. Now that there is no longer that assurance, people want Begich to run.
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« Reply #10 on: September 14, 2016, 07:10:41 PM »
Lol wut.

I actually don't mind Mark Begich, he opposed the Iran deal and worked w/ Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu and Evan Bayh in lobbying against it. On top of that, he's pretty centrist as a whole.

But, like in Indiana, I'll back the Republican. Keeping the majority is too important. Only difference between AK and IN is that I like Todd Young while I'm not a huge fan of Murkowski. Oh, and Begich has no chance as a write-in candidate.
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« Reply #11 on: September 14, 2016, 07:51:50 PM »
And the plot thickens in a senate seat with consistently abnormal elections
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« Reply #12 on: September 14, 2016, 09:17:45 PM »
This makes no sense. Surely you'd wait until 2020? I don't think Murkowski's beatable in a General Election.....
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« Reply #13 on: September 14, 2016, 09:21:09 PM »
What a weird senate election (then again it is alaska).  Though perhaps he has data we dont have access to.
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« Reply #14 on: September 14, 2016, 09:29:21 PM »
I guess this is now the least safe of the Safe R.
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« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2016, 12:13:13 AM »
LOL! Safe R.
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« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2016, 04:27:30 AM »
It's too late!!! He should of done this back in April when the Dem primary was taking place.

Murkowski will probably vote to confirm Garland
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« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2016, 09:19:05 AM »
Sure, why the hell not, have fun Mark!
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« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2016, 12:09:31 PM »
Hey if this forces the NRSC to spend money in Alaska why not?
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« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2016, 12:46:33 PM »
Alaska won't be on the radar this year. Murkowski is too popular and will win easily.
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« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2016, 04:37:20 PM »
Collins and Murkowski are already on board with Garland
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« Reply #21 on: September 16, 2016, 02:45:07 AM »
I would still say that Murkowski has a good shot at winning, but if Begich runs as a write in, this will be an amazing race to watch because how can you go wrong with an incumbent Republican who won the last election as a write-in, a Republican turned Libertarian (who should really be with the Constitution Party) that wants a rematch, a washed up former Republican and Moderate Republican who is now somehow a Democrat, and a former senator mounting a write-in campaign for the senate seat that wasn't his. If only Dan A. Sullivan (the mayor of Anchorage) had ran.
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« Reply #22 on: September 16, 2016, 08:41:53 AM »
Roll call predicts Begich will enter. D+2
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« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2016, 08:51:38 AM »
IN, WI, NH & WI are gone 50 seats
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« Reply #24 on: September 16, 2016, 09:12:26 AM »

PA is likeleir than NH imo
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