“No big surprise. The shocker would have been if he lost MI growing up there and with the 3 times governor father.”
Yes, the father who as governor so admired Saul Alinsky.
Whom his father admired is irrelevant to this thread. My point is, again, if your father was elected governor 3 times in a state 20 times larger in population that Alaska, you have a huge name recognition advantage. Losing to a man from PA would be a shock and a huge repudiation.