Hays Research (5/6-7, Republican voters):
Don Young (R-inc): 45
Sean Parnell (R): 42
Gabrielle LeDoux (R): 2
(MoE: ±4.9%)
I’m not sold that this is a solid sample of likely GOP primary voters, but the results are still ominous for Young.
Young’s favorables? A staggering 59% of all respondents (not just Republicans) have an unfavorable opinion of Young, with 30% feeling “very unfavorable” about the crumb-bum congressman.
Meanwhile, Ted Stevens is viewed favorably by 53% of respondents, and unfavorably by 43%. That’s an improvement over the 49%/46% rating that Stevens held back in March.
Primary: 8/26.
We do NOT need someone else to win. I’m not sure we would beat anyone other than Young.
one would always prefer to run against a non-incumbent candidate rather than the incumbent.
But here I suspect that IF Young loses to Parnell, most Alaskans would consider that they’ve done the job of cleaning house and would go ahead and vote Parnell in the general
(whereas they might still vote against Young in Nov.)
But still… you’d have to waterboard me before I’d ever root for Young for anything
A couple of days ago a former Alaska state legislator was convicted and sentencd to three years for getting $4,700 in bribes and a $3,000 summer job for his nephew. Three years for chump change. The high paid VECO execs lined up to testify against them and are still at large with huge fortunes. The only big names they can testify against are RepubLican: Ted Stevens, Don Young, Frank Murkowski and iperhaps Sarah Pallin.
But also Parnell only raised 50k last Q so he isn’t going to be able to put much effort into the challenge. Despite Young’s legal fee’s he has money to spend.
Go Young in the primary! If he wins the primary I think this seat is ours.
The more odious Young is, the more easy it is for us to beat him, but the less likely it is for him to survive his primary.
Textbook problem: Find the optimum odiousness.
Can only registered Republicans vote in the GOP primaries for Congress and Senator? If not, and the Dems can vote n the GOP primary that day, then Dems ought to vote for both Young and Stevens. We can beat them in the general but may not be able to beat other Republicans not named Young and Stevens.
i wonder if young has started spending money on direct mail or radio yet. it will be interesting to see what he does with his financial advantage. he could run the way ernie fletcher did in the kentucky primary – accenting that he is the true conservative and suggesting that the “scandals” are part of a partisan democratic witchhunt. and he needs to define parnell.
let me have this damned campaign, i can get young through to his eventual doom.