If Peltola had chosen to run for the open-seat governor position, she'd probably be the odds-on favorite to win.
And governor is a much better job. More personal power, Dems actually weirdly enough have coalition majorities in both chambers of the AK legislature, and no 12+ hour flight to DC (and remember her husband passed away recently in a plane crash.)
But she challenged an incumbent for Senate, which is much more important nationally. An extremely noble personal sacrifice. Many Dems (cough cough Whitmer, the 10 million people running in ME gubernatioral) could learn from her.
@_fat_ugly_rat_ Immensely incompetent state party to be outsmarted by a walking turd like Platner.
Literally anyone could have predicted the a huge issue for Dems after Biden fucked it all up would be No Olds Allowed, Ever
@nikicaga I don’t think we’ve heard the last of stuff about him tbh. He is a walking human red flag, doesn’t matter how weak anyone thought Mills would be 🤷🏻♂️
@_Jason_Dean_ I agree but that's more like a Presidential election year superpower that works on his cattle IQ base.
I think the dynamics of sixth year itch midterm is different, he's already starting from a worse baseline.
@Mason__McCann She’s basically a crank candidate who would usually get 1% as a typical Green Party person but snuck into the runoff because she ran as a Dem for a new seat and nobody was paying attention.
@nikicaga There’s going to be a contingent of these freaks sabotaging the left every election until they feel unwelcome enough to not have a home in the Dems and go back to their natural fash roots.
@jakesgoodopines Looking at her latest Instagram post....I think she may have BPD?
There's a huge sense of victimhood and blaming others, followed by unhinged outbursts and screaming, then more quiet victimhood. She needs to be in a psych ward, not congress!
@SeanTrende I'm loving this comments section. Do people not understand:
1) How probabilities work
2) How a big Dem wave would work (i.e You get results that normally would not happen!)
@nikicaga Lol I just noticed the imbecile BrieBrie's talking to. It's the lady always in the replies of random Dems accusing them of being Hitler. She was too irritating even for Al Jazeera's tankie division of "journalists" they tried cultivating for a while.