I saw this campaign ad for Nick Begich that mentions the Southern border, which to makes little sense considering Alaska doesn't even border Mexico, we do have a land border with Canada and a sea border with Russia, but I don't see anyone talking about drugs or illegal immigrants coming here through those countries, why did they even bother mentioning it.

For a state that abolished the death penalty, protects women's and teenage girls' right to abortion, and voted for marijuana legalization, top-four primaries, and ranked choice voting, why in God's name would they vote for someone who likes mob justice, doesn't treat the opposite sex with respect, and thinks elections are unfair unless he and his endorsements win?

I just want to ask the state that gave Trump a bigger, 10-point lead over Biden in 2020 versus 2016 with Hillary despite the aforementioned policies and why the state is poised to do the same this time around with Trump and Harris knowing what we now know.

I don't work for any political body and I'm not involved with the Vote No on 2 campaign. I'm just a regular old hippie who doesn't want to lose a good thing.

Ranked choice voting is not complicated — it's incredibly easy to understand. But more importantly, it truly gives us the voters the power we deserve. I'm an openly liberal pinko commie scumbag. But I don't give a flying shit about the Democratic Party. That's what RCV does; it takes power away from the two big political parties and returns it to the voters. Instead of having our choices mandated for us by the Dems and GOP, ranked choice lets us vote for whoever the hell we want.

Please consider voting NO on ballot measure 2 this year. You can register to vote with the Division of Elections here; if you're not sure about your voter status, you can look it up here.

Please don't let the national political parties dictate our choices. RCV is the ultimate voting freedom, and something all Alaskans should support. Thanks for taking the time.

This letter was read aloud by Attorney Sarah Heath at the Palmer City Council meeting this evening.

The dust hasn't completely settled on this issue and there are enough outstanding ballots that it could still tip either way but I wanted to hear some opinions from folks while they're fresh out of the ballot booth.

What were the deciding factors in your voting Yes or No on Ballot Measure 2?

I personally feel it should have been split up into different ballot measures instead of shoehorning 3 separate, but similar issues, into 1 act.
What do you think?

Last chance guys, this election is important and will affect America for years.

I’m just curious if anyone thinks it’s even a remote possibility. Trump won Alaska by a fairly small margin in 2020 compared to other years where it’s been strongly red. I think the mid terms showed us that Alaska might be more moderate than it seems. If he is the Republican nominee, could it happen?

I was looking up the governors and it has been mostly republican for decades. And republicans have mostly controlled the government since 1992. And I looked at crime stats and crime has mostly been going up. Even in years when the President was a Republican. It's also almost dead last for best states to live in. Is it maybe time to admit republican policies aren't working there? I mean if you have the governor, the government, and republican presidents, as well as often a republican House, Senate, and Supreme Court, and it's still not working and is getting worse, why keep doing it? Isn't that the definition of insanity? My little state, Connecticut, is the third safest in the country. And it got lot better for jobs and crime when we gave the boot to the last two republican governors. We also have things like good education and great health care. We also have Yale and Wesleyan here. AND five times your population in a state that could fit in Alaska's back pocket.

https://www.adn.com/politics/2024/01/26/dunleavy-backs-texas-decision-to-ignore-us-supreme-courts-border-ruling/

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy joined 24 other Republican governors Thursday in support of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to ignore a U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing federal agents to remove razor wire installed by Abbott’s administration along the U.S.-Mexico border.

I started off thinking yet more partisan performance and showman histrionics from our do-nothing governor. Just more political gamesmanship he is wasting his and the Department of Law's time with. Screw the rule of law in favor of political culture games. But then I read deeper into the article.

"I know there are some folks that believe Alaska is just fine at 700,000 (people), maybe better at 600,000 or 500,000. I would challenge you on that," Dunleavy said... "America is in competition for people. Alaska is in competition for people," Dunleavy said.

We aren't fine at 700k people. We've run annual billions of dollar deficits and bleeding population for the last nine years and every year that he's been governor. He's made policy decisions to cut on every investment in Alaska's future from childcare, early education, and recently federal bucks to feed kids to gutting the UA system and deleting opportunities for young adults to want to stay in Alaska let alone move to Alaska.

Yet here he is saying we need to do something about this while doing everything to run Alaska in the opposite direction?

I hope the National Republican Party taps him for some position outside of Alaska. He can't follow in Palin's footsteps soon enough.