AK-PPP - Clinton competitive

[Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"]

Alaska is moving toward the Democrats.  It's a ways away from being a swing state, but enough liberal environmental types have moved in to re-elect Begich.

Aside from Palin's hideous personality and character, she's in trouble because she's tried to make her career trashing the Murkowski family.  She was elected Governor because she knocked off Frank Murkowski, who became unpopular when he appointed his daughter, Lisa, to fill the Senate seat he vacated.  Had she succeeded on the national stage, she well may have kept her upper hand in Alaska, but she did her image irreparable harm in 2008.  Then she quit as Governor, and tried to be a national power broker, where she had some success, but her most spectacular failure was her own Senate candidate in Alaska, Joe Miller, winning the primary but losing to Lisa Murkowski as a write-in.  Frank Murkowski may not be Governor anymore, but he didn't stop being one of the richest men in Alaska after 2006.