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ALASKA IS
FLAGGING
flank, believing they help brand
him as a political maverick.
“It’s not difficult for me!” Begich
said about whether his vote has
become a political liability. “You
press people think it’s difficult.”
Nonetheless, it will be a tough
needle for Begich to thread.
Alaska’s often contradictory
politics — solidly Republican yet
strongly receptive to government
money — will require him to cast
himself as both politically independent and connected enough
to his party apparatus to secure
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federal funds for the state.
So far, at least, he seems to be
succeeding. Polling shows Begich
defeating all of the declar