Native Alaskans and Eskimos don’t vote as a bloc from what I’ve read. I can see Begich’s point given his last election (trailing by 3,000 and finishing 4,000 ahead), but don’t see this turning around for because A) that was 2008, a heady time for Democrats, while this 2014, the equivalent of Bush’s 2006; and B) statistically it just doesn’t make sense that he would make up an even wider margin now than he did then given (A).
They sure did this season. In our village, even a few of the Repub Vets voted for Begich; those guys have never voted for dems in the past. Like I said, the Natives are mostly Dem, but they don’t get too excited about voting anyway. This year most voted, the dem secret agents in their Begich election offices in most villages made sure.