When you’re the sole at-large House member, it’s different.
Many Governors have done so over the years. Three from Arizona went from Governor to At-Large (when it had a single seat). 1 from Arkansas.
Mike Castle of Delaware left the Governorship to run for the sole seat in 1992 (switching jobs with Tom Carper).
2 from Idaho, 1 from Nevada, 1 from New Mexico (and 2 more when NM had two at-large seats), 1 from North Dakota (when it had two at-large seats), 2 from Oregon, Puerto Rico’s Carlos Antonio Romero Barceló was another, 1 from RI, 1 from VT, 1 from the Virgin Islands, 1 from WA, 1 from WI, 1 from WY.
Bill Janklow from South Dakota in 2002, the most recent to make the jump (before his mowing down a biker sent him to prison).
Others have tried for regular districts after their Governorship ended (look at Crist in FL). A former President (JQ Adams) was more comfortable and effective in the House after his single term (despite the fact he could’ve gone back to the Senate at any point during his later years).
At-Large seats are like de facto 3rd Senators in the 7 states that presently have them. I think Palin would be a better fit at present to take out Don Young and serve with the firebrand lady Conservatives whose numbers are growing in the House.
So long as at the end of the day, Lisa Murkowski’s been retired to enjoy her ill-got gains, I’ll be happy.
I have no objection to that. Someone needs to run against that jerk.
She needs to KTFO out the Senate race though, we already have a candidate that Trump and the state party have endorsed. She probably just said it for attention though and has no attention of running for anything.
New poll out
Includes a rat who is thinking about running but hasn’t announced, and also Joe Miller for some reason. Not featurned is the rat/”I” who is running.
The poll has Miller in 4th and has 17% of his votes going to Lisa in the next round, which I would doubt. I also doubt Miller is going to even run, he is not an announced candidate and if he said anything about running it wasn’t recently.