Alaska’s an odd place, politically. We vote reliably for Republican presidents; the last Democrat to win Alaska’s three electoral votes was Lyndon Johnson in 1964. We have the Anchorage-Juneau Axis, which is heavily Democratic. That area, though, is balanced by the mostly red Matanuska-Susitna Borough, home to another major (for Alaska) portion of the state’s population. The eastern part of Alaska trends Republican, while the native communities run sort of a pale blue.
In 2024, Alaska Republicans got a little better handle on how to work with the state’s ill-advised ranked-choice voting scheme, which we are working on repealing again. In the Congressional election, for Alaska’s one at-large House seat, the GOP only ran one candidate, Nick Begich III, and he sent Democrat Mary Peltola back to Bethel.
Now, Alaska Democrats are trying to figure out what to do…
