Help Support Scott McAdams for Alaska-Sen
The surprising ascendance of Alaska-Sen to a real race this year seems to have caught everyone off-guard. With Teabagger Joe Miller's upset win in the republican primary the republican party itself must now grapple with a candidate who who is not shy about espousing radical views (gutting or eliminating entitlement programs chief among them). Naturally in a state like Alaska which relies on the Federal government such opinions are not shared by the majority. This has left an opening for a relatively unknown and underfunded Democratic candidate Scott McAdams of Sitka, Alaska.
Present U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski was expected to win in a walk in November, and polls suggest she would have with a thirty point lead over McAdams and deep financial resources. Now, however, with an extremist like Joe Miller winning the race is in single digits by two pollsters (Rasmussen and PPP).
Some of the pundits are already writing these results off, saying there's no way a Democrat can win in Alaska this year, somehow forgetting that elections are strange things with a mind of their own. If McAdams runs a smart campaign and has sufficient resources he could very well win this race. In the past few days McAdams has become #3 at ActBlue, raising nearly $100,000.
SwingState (via Roll Call) has more on the growing enthusiasm.
"It's night and day," a Democratic source close to the campaign said about the feeling on the ground in the state since the primary. "People are excited. People are stunned." ...
"It is happening, and there's a new surge of energy and excitement into Democratic headquarters out here," Alaska Democratic Party spokeswoman Kay Brown said. "Scott's a good guy, a real Alaskan, and I think he's going to look good and compare favorably against Joe Miller." ...The Democratic source said that McAdams could pick up Republican votes in places like the Aleutian Islands, which is home to the largest fishing port in the country and relies on significant federal funding - something some in the state believe could diminish with Miller in office.
"People are freaked out out here about this Joe Miller guy," the source said.
Here's his official donations link.
Video is from the Rachel Maddow show last night.
"People are freaked out out here about this Joe Miller guy," the source said.
Now they're freaked out? What? No tv in Alaska?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
It might ruin the MSM narrative of Palin being a king maker.
Is she preggers AGAIN?!?!
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
But I am pretty sure the 'good' people of the Matanuska-Susitna valley (Wasilla) would vote for a developmentally disabled Monkey if it had a 'R' beside its name on a ballot.
The rest of the state will split.
Is GW Bush running?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Thanks for giving attention to the good guys and not just the bad guys. Every time we link to a bad politician we should provide a link to his progressive opponent. And be as familiar with their names as much as we are the others.
http://www.scottmcadams.org/
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I hope C&L picks up on it. 90% of the country don't know who the democrats are that are running against republicans. Who's running against McCain for an example?
Isn't he the guy who does Dilbert?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
No. I think he wrote Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4P3pvKmbsg
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The good news is that it doesn't cost much to run a good campaign in Alaska. So Repukes can saturate the media but Scott can still get his message across loud and clear.
I hope Scottie has a strong constitution because judging from Joe Miller's..ahem..."character"...Mr. McAdams is about to be dragged through the shit from one end of Alaska to the other.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
I would advise McAdams to put Miller on the defensive by making the fairly right wing electorate understand that if McAdams is elected he will go to Washington to REALLY fight for the Constitution.
That he will fight to reverse the U.S. Patriot Act and The Military Commissions Act and the right of the federal government to assassinate U.S. citizens without charge or trial.
He should get all Constitutionally medieval on Miller at the debates.
That would take him over the top.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Donated. Who knew AK would be in play this year? The one advantage of the extreme candidates winning their primaries...
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