[Old Student]

“AK has a population of 700,000. OK has a population of 3.6 million. Oklahoma City has a population of 550,000.”

Thanks for the correction, but you've really proven my point, such as it was. Population-wise, Alaska is a small state. Land-area wise, of course, and in many other ways, not small at all.

I am going to have to stop depending on memory for statistics, though. Obviously my memory is quite unreliable.

[wideawake]

Population-wise, AK is indeed a small state - but not smaller than the states of other serious and respected presidential and vice presidential candidates.

And it punches high above its weight class economically and geostrategically.