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ALASKA IS
FLAGGING
planning to target him with every
weapon in their arsenal.
History suggests that Begich’s
seat should be an easy get for the
GOP in 2014. Alaska has traditionally hewed conservative, and
Begich was elected by the thinnest
of margins in 2008. He won only
after Stevens was found guilty on
corruption charges eight days before Election Day. (The conviction
was later overturned.)
On the Republican side, Lt. Gov.
Mead Treadwell has already announced his candidacy, as has former Alaska Attorney General Dan
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Sullivan. Joe Miller, who beat out
Sen. Lisa Murkowski to become
the GOP nominee in 2010, only to
lose to her write-in campaign, is
also running again.
And because nothing gets cable
news hosts and web editors as hot
and bothered, questions about a
Sarah Palin candidacy refuse to
die, despite lukewarm interest
from the former governor and vice
presidential candidate.
Begich’s campaign won’t shy
away from Palin, whose standing with the public couldn’t be
worse if she proposed opening up
Mount McKinley to mountaintop
removal mining.
“I’m not even sure if she still
Former New
York City
Mayor Michael
Bloomberg,
left, speaks
during a press
conference
to announce
an operation
that seized
the largest
number of
illegal guns
in the city’s
history in
August 2013.
Bloomberg
has criticized
Begich, who
takes a more
conservative
position on
guns, for his
vote against
expanded
background
checks.