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This, of course, seems a scandalous result. Stevens, the country's longest-serving Senator, was found guilty of concealing improper gifts he received from an oil-services company executive. Although he claims he is innocent and is fighting to overturn the court decision, Stevens' Senate colleagues, particularly from his own...
The loyalty Alaska voters feel for Stevens (whose federal budget largesse left him with more presents to hand out than Santa Claus) may have predisposed them to believe his view of events. In a debate last Thursday with Begich, Stevens made one of the most laughable claims in modern political...
Stevens probably benefited, too, from a lazy Begich campaign. Even when Stevens got an improbable bump in the polls after he was indicted and Alaskans actually rallied around him, Begich didn't see fit to use advertising or his speeches to condemn his opponent. Alaskans are fiercely proud of their...
But if the mantra in the rest of the country this election was "Throw the bums out!" in Alaska they were saying, "Let's keep our bums, thanks." Alaska Congressman Don Young, who spent a huge share of his campaign donations on legal fees to keep his nose clean in...
So now all eyes are on the Stevens race. If he wins, it certainly won't lift the heavy heart of Alaska governor and vanquished vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Relations between Stevens and Palin are icy. She ran for governor on a platform that railed against the kind of...