![]() ![]() “So, the only reality that we all have to face and embrace is that there is no model, and we get to try this out and hopefully it works out for the best.” “There is no model,” Chris Constant, one of the Democrats running, said in a phone interview Monday. Sarah Palin, Santa Claus, seasoned politicians and political newcomers - will vie for limited attention and airtime in an unprecedented election. The four-dozen candidates - including former Gov. The final list of candidates includes six Democrats, 16 Republicans, 22 nonpartisan or undeclared, two Libertarians, an American Independence Party member and an Alaska Independence Party member. The three candidates who backed out by the Monday noon deadline are Republican Jesse Sumner and nonpartisan candidates Breck Craig and Richard Morris.Īlaska now faces a frenetic, two-month campaign season before the first primary. The new election system and more candidates than ever seen in an Alaska primary have politicians, pundits and strategists still scratching their heads. House election by Monday’s deadline, finalizing the number of candidates at 48 but leaving ample uncertainty about how the race will unfold over the next two months.Īll 48 candidates will be on the same ballot June 11 in Alaska’s nonpartisan primary - a new system of winnowing candidates that voters approved in a citizens initiative two years ago. Three fringe candidates dropped out of Alaska’s special U.S. The chamber of the House of Representatives in the U.S. ![]()
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