McLaughlin & Associates for the Club For Growth (8/18, likely voters, 8/7 in parens):
Don Young (R-inc): 42 (43)
Sean Parnell (R): 44 (39)
Gabrielle LeDoux (R): 8 (10)
(MoE: ±5.7%)
Parnell takes the lead by a hair — but just a hair. This race just might end up coming down to a photo finish. (H/T: The Politico)
The Club For Brain Growth continues to do everything they can to push the empty suit of Sean Parnell across the finish line, including the release of this new attack ad yesterday that heavily hypes Sarah Palin’s endorsement:
Hiding behind Palin is a smart strategy for the Club, whose leaders have probably never even set foot in Alaska and whose agenda includes stopping the flow of controversial earmarks to the state.
In his corner, Don Young picked up an endorsement of his own this week — from libertarian nutball Rep. Ron Paul:
Paul, the 72-year-old congressman from Texas whose maverick presidential bid drew wide support in Alaska, sent out a letter to his supporters here urging them to vote for Young.
“Don and I have served together in Congress for many years, and I consider him a friend,” Paul wrote in the letter. “Don has been an outspoken voice against environmental extremists over the years and has strongly opposed the types of federal regulatory overreach advocated in the name of environmentalism.”
Strange bedfellows, indeed.
Their candidate is leading in a poll conducted for them, who would’ve thunk it?
Isn’t Young like the King of Pork?
Besides the Burmese junta, Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, North Korea and a host of others, politically speaking, political Alaska is probably the last standing domain of Banana Republics and feifdoms that are still in existence. I found this great article in the New Republic describing artisically the political decay that has gone on in Alaska for three quarters of a century.
Just remember, whatever happens on Tuesday, Don Young and Ted Stevens are pretty much finished.
Paul endorsing one of the biggest pork-barrel politicians of all-time? That doesn’t make much sense.
Will indeed be a photo finish, with Young winning by a toenail.