Alaska: The Sleeper Race That Could Decide Control of the Senate
As the prognosticators and planners inside the Acela corridor were rolling out of bed last Wednesday morning, the votes in Alaska’s open Senate primary were still being counted. The former Democratic congresswoman Mary Peltola had opened a commanding lead over the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, notching 48.1 percent to Sullivan’s 42.7 percent (a margin that, with most of the votes now counted, has continued to hold).
- ▪As the prognosticators and planners inside the Acela corridor were rolling out of bed last Wednesday morning, the votes in Alaska’s open Senate primary were still being counted.
- ▪The former Democratic congresswoman Mary Peltola had opened a commanding lead over the Republican incumbent Sen.
- ▪Dan Sullivan, notching 48.1 percent to Sullivan’s 42.7 percent (a margin that, with most of the votes now counted, has continued to hold).
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Politics Alaska: The Sleeper Race That Could Decide Senate Control Name confusion and the Last Frontier’s ranked-choice system may spell trouble for Republicans. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images) <div class="o-image__issue-wrapper"> <img class="o-image__image" srcset="https://tac.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TAC_Screenshot_final.jpg?auto=format&crop=faces%2Centropy&fit=crop&ixlib=php-3.3.1&w=32 32w, https://tac.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TAC_Screenshot_final.jpg?auto=format&crop=faces%2Centropy&fit=crop&ixlib=php-3.3.1&w=32 32w, https://tac.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TAC_Screenshot_final.jpg?auto=format&crop=faces%2Centropy&fit=crop&ixlib=php-3.3.1&w=32 32w,…
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