Posted on 07/22/2014 10:17:41 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Mark Begich is the Democrat Senator from Alaska because the Democrats smeared the good name and reputation of Ted Stevens, the Republican who held the seat until 2008.
Stevens was savaged by the Democrat controlled media and criminally charged with being corrupt. Although he was pretty much cleared before the election, the people of Alaska decided “better safe than sorry.” In Begich they got worse not better and plenty to be sorry about.
Begich delivered not for Alaskans but for Barack Obama and Harry Reid when he joined in the sneaky Christmas Eve passage of a bill the Senate Democrats made believe was the bill on Obamacare that was sent to them. That was a lie, but like all Democrats they lied to ram through socialized medical care merely because they could and our Marxist President ordered them to.
Now, four years later with exactly one passed bill under his belt – yes, you guessed it, a Post Office renaming–Begich is facing the consequences of his ineptitude. As one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats, Begich is grasping at any campaign theme he thinks will end his political-approval free fall by fooling 50% plus one Alaskans.
Just as other Democrats invent imaginary friends who tell them to raise everybody’s taxes...
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Man, renaming one single post office...that’s a feat. The re-election ad ought to be interesting....what he did for four years, then feature the post office in the background, and talk about what that did for the local community. Ask folks if they even knew it was renamed, or if it made a difference.
I remember that differently. I remember Stevens being another corrupt member of the GOP-E, and I think Sarah Palin said basically the same thing, iirc.
JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER TO BEGICH VOTERS As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature plan that was ultimately enacted (by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote) into the "Affordable Care Act":
QUOTING OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.”
Repeated over and over ---- with the promise that every American would be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs.
LOCK-STEPPING PARTY LOYALTY NOT SEEN SINCE 1930-40's ERA EUROPE:
IN 2009, SEN. MARK BEGICH (D-Alaska) told his constituents: “If you got a doctor now, you got a medical professional you want, you get to keep that. If you have an insurance program or a health care policy you want of ideas, make sure you keep it. That you can keep who you want.” (Sen. Begich, Townhall Event, 7/27/09)
...... missing among the IRS’s internal emails are communications with Sens. Mark Udall, Mark Begich, and a dozen other Democrats who received campaign contributions from the federal agency’s union.
Democratic senators who took campaign donations from the IRS union include Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana who received $25,500, Al Frankin of Minnesota with $5,000, and Mark Begich of Alaska.
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Are Treadwell and Sullivan the clear leaders in the Republican primary .. where does it stand now?
PUBLICPOLICYPOLLING.COM
May 13, 2014
Sullivan expands advantage in GOP primary, Begich holds small leads
PPP’s newest Alaska poll finds the Republican primary for Senate becoming increasingly less competitive. Dan Sullivan is now out to a 14 point lead with 40% to 26% for Mead Treadwell, 14% for Joe Miller, and 3% for John Jaramillo.
The race has been moving more and more in Sullivan’s direction in our polling over the last nine months. In July Treadwell led Sullivan 33/25. Since then Sullivan’s support has moved from that 25% mark last summer to 30% in February and now 40%. Meanwhile Treadwell dropped from 33% in July to 25% in February and is now pretty much holding steady with his 26% mark.
In a relief to Republicans Miller’s support has been going in the wrong direction as well, from 24% over the summer to 20% in February to now 14%. His favorability even with GOP primary voters is only 28/52, and there no longer appears to be a real threat of his winning the nomination. Sullivan is dominating with the conservative voters who helped Miller win the 2010 primary.
Mark Begich leads all of his potential Republican opponents, but the match ups are pretty close across the board. He’s up 42/37 on Sullivan with third party candidates combining for 7%, he’s up 41/33 on Treadwell with third party candidates combining for 9%, and he’s up 43/27 on Miller with third party candidates combining for 6%.
His leads over Sullivan and Treadwell stood at 4 and 6 points respectively in February, so the race is largely unchanged. Voters are closely divided in their feelings about Begich with 44% approving of him and 45% disapproving.
Begich is staying ahead despite the state’s GOP lean because of his strong support from independents. He leads Sullivan by 19 points, Treadwell by 20 points, and Miller by 27 points with them. He also has a more unified party with 76-79% of Democrats saying they’ll vote for him, while only 55-70% of GOP voters say they’re committed to their potential party nominees for this fall.
This is one of the first tier Senate races where who the undecided voters are could prove problematic for the Democratic incumbent though. Among voters who are undecided in the match up between Begich and Sullivan, Begich has just a 12/54 approval spread and Barack Obama’s approval rating comes down at 9/71.
It’s not likely Begich is going to end up winning a lot of those voters, but if there’s a silver line for him it’s that only 37% voted for Romney in 2012 to 21% for Obama and 42% who voted for a third party candidate.
They probably won’t vote for Begich, but they might not vote for Sullivan either- Alaska’s unusual level of willingness to vote for third party candidates could end up making a difference here by allowing Begich to squeak through without getting to 50% of the vote.
Plus now that Project HAARP is shutting down, he’s gonna have to take in his brother.
Libertarians have three running in their primary but they all look rather disorganized and weak. Does Alaska see much Libertarian percentage in a Senate race traditionally or is it more like 1%?
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