And rural votes at that! Are we to believe that two out of three of the remaining rural votes are for the Democrat?
Begich campaigned in the interior and the far north of Alaska. He reached all parts of the state not just Democratic Anchorage.
Whether that ultimately helps him remains to be seen but I don’t think it will pay off since the race wasn’t as close as the Democrats would have liked.
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Whereas Sullivan and the Republican Party have 14 field staffers on the payroll, Begich and the Democratic Party have 90. Nearly half of them are based in rural Alaska and are responsible for on-the-ground organizing in the state’s 198 Native villages such as Quinhagak.
“We have knocked on every single door in rural Alaska,” Begich said in an interview. “This is unbelievable. No one’s ever done it like this — ever.”