Posted on 08/20/2014 3:28:50 AM PDT by Din Maker
Republican establishment favorite Dan Sullivan will take on vulnerable Alaska Democratic Sen. Mark Begich in the fall after winning his party’s hotly contested Senate primary on Tuesday.
Sullivan, his state’s former attorney general and natural resources commissioner, beat two Republican rivals for the nomination. He faced Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell and Tea Party favorite and 2010 GOP primary winner Joe Miller.
The Associated Press called the race with 80 percent of the precincts reporting. Sullivan had 40 percent of the vote, while Miller had garnered 32 percent and Treadwell placed third with 25 percent. Sullivan led Miller by over 7,000 votes out of over 86,000 cast. Treadwell had conceded defeat late Tuesday night, surrounded by supporters, including his three children, at the downtown Anchorage venue where election results were posted.
Sullivan, with millions of dollars at his disposal and major GOP players behind him, had been considered the front-runner in the race. Begich already was treating him as the presumptive nominee, with allies running costly attack ads against him.
Sullivan now assumes the GOP mantle as he competes for a major prize in the Republicans’ midterm playbook. The party needs six seats to flip control of the Senate, and Begich’s is one of their top targets.
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-——delusions of grandeur-——
or, sanctimonious self righteousness
Such conservatives value their own narrow views more than they value america.
B$ you have fake libertarians enter to split the vote. 60% of the vote was not cast for the winner.
Begich is only there due to bogus prosecution of Ted Stevens. Another single event that had it not occurred, no Obamacare.
That reminds me of what happened in California in 1986, when 11 conservatives split up the vote so that ultra-liberal Congressman Ed Zschau (rhymes, appropriately, with Mao) won the GOP nomination for US Senate with about a third of the votes. There was no runoff, so California Republicans were stuck with a standard bearer that made George McGovern look like Jesse Helms. Zschau went on to lose to Democrat Alan Cranston.
Enzi, Risch, Scott and Inhofe voted with Jeff Sessions immediately to not open debate on the amnesty bill. All of them won by huge margins.
Only Pat Roberts struggled for every other reason.
ALABAMA: Sessions & Shelby
ARKANSAS: Boozman
IDAHO: Crapo & Risch
ILLINOIS: Kirk (fake no vote)
IOWA: Grassley
KANSAS: Roberts
LOUISIANA: Vitter
OKLAHOMA: Inhofe
SOUTH CAROLINA: Scot
TEXAS: Cruz
UTAH: Lee
WYOMING: Barrasso & Enzi
First post primary poll by “Rasmussen”,
Sullivan 47%, Begich 45%.
Begich was a fluke based on Justice Dept. fraud of the Alaskan voters. I expect this embarrassment to be rectified in November.
Just as a curiosity, and in what will likely cause enormous confusion, Lt Gov.-presumptive Dan Sullivan might challenge Murkowski in the GOP primary in 2016, and we could have two Senator Dan Sullivans from the same state with no relation.
He might? That’s awesome, witch needs to go.
At least one of them needs to start using their middle name or at least initial.
The guy running for the Senate is Daniel Scott Sullivan.
The Anchorage Mayor running for LT Governor is Daniel A. Sullivan.
Or, one of them can be “Danny”.
Or “Dan Sullivan the younger/elder”, the mayor has 13 years of the other one.
Interesting article, it ranks who got the highest number of votes in GOP Senate primaries, it’s meaningless of course but check it out.
Cornholle is #1, and guess who’s #2
Uberdouche in Illinois! Followed by Lamar! and the guy we should have nominated in Illinois, Doug Truax. With Turban’s weak polling numbers, Truax might have been able to win.
Makes me think we should find 150,000 or conservatives to move to Vermont and take it over. Better yet, Hawaii.
It’s meaningless, though, since obviously a low-population state will have fewer actual voters choosing the nominee vs. a large one.
The bigger issue is candidates winning the nomination with less than 50% of the vote, which is unrepresentative of the majority party preference, and open primaries, where those of the opposition choose the nominee. Both need to end.
That would be hilarious for the person who does the roll call in the Senate. “Mr. Sullivan of Alaska.” Um, which one? “Mr. Dan Sullivan of Alaska.” Again, which one? They’ll have to go to middle initials!
“Just as a curiosity, and in what will likely cause enormous confusion, Lt Gov.-presumptive Dan Sullivan might challenge Murkowski in the GOP primary in 2016, and we could have two Senator Dan Sullivans from the same state with no relation.”
Interesting possibility, but let’s not count our chickens before they hatch. Begich is running a good campaign and is creating the illusion of independence and distance from Obama. A nasty Republican primary hasn’t helped matters any, either. I think this race could go either way.
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