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**Bobobsdo** · 08-26-2010, 01:00 AM

Oh, geeze. Alaska is the ultimate flyover state way "up there" in the North country. You can't expect sophisticated progressives to keep up on what's going on there.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/...me-alaska.html

DNC spokesman can't name Alaska Dem running for Senate

Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee spokesmen were on ABC's "Top Line" Wednesday with dueling messages coming out of last night's primary.

RNC spokesman Doug Heye was asked right off the bat whether the party embraced Alaska Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller's position that unemployment benefits were not constitutionally authorized. "We embrace whatever [a] candidate needs to do to win," said Heye. "Every candidate campaigns in a different manner...We look for candidates who can win." Heye went on to call the Constitution a "key talking point" for the GOP.

The DNC's Brad Woodhouse jumped on Heye immediately, "If Republicans are going to say whatever they need to do to win, I think we might be in better shape than people think." But when Woodhouse was asked to name the Democratic Senate candidate in Alaska, which is a strong Republican hold, he was at a loss. Eventually he responded, "Well, our candidate in Alaska...his name is not Lisa Murkowski." (Woodhouse fields the question at about 6 minutes in.).

Woodhouse was right about that. His name is Scott McAdams, and he stands a remote chance of beating Miller or current Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski in November. As The Post's Chris Cillizza put it in an online live chat late Wednesday morning: "I have heard NOTHING from Democrats about Alaska and given the other races they have to worry about in the Senate, it's hard for me to imagine them spending any money in the Last Frontier or targeting it in any significant way."

08-26-2010, 01:00 AM	#9
Bobobsdo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 433 Senior Member	Oh, geeze. Alaska is the ultimate flyover state way "up there" in the North country. You can't expect sophisticated progressives to keep up on what's going on there. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/...me-alaska.html DNC spokesman can't name Alaska Dem running for Senate Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee spokesmen were on ABC's "Top Line" Wednesday with dueling messages coming out of last night's primary. RNC spokesman Doug Heye was asked right off the bat whether the party embraced Alaska Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller's position that unemployment benefits were not constitutionally authorized. "We embrace whatever [a] candidate needs to do to win," said Heye. "Every candidate campaigns in a different manner...We look for candidates who can win." Heye went on to call the Constitution a "key talking point" for the GOP. The DNC's Brad Woodhouse jumped on Heye immediately, "If Republicans are going to say whatever they need to do to win, I think we might be in better shape than people think." But when Woodhouse was asked to name the Democratic Senate candidate in Alaska, which is a strong Republican hold, he was at a loss. Eventually he responded, "Well, our candidate in Alaska...his name is not Lisa Murkowski." (Woodhouse fields the question at about 6 minutes in.). Woodhouse was right about that. His name is Scott McAdams, and he stands a remote chance of beating Miller or current Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski in November. As The Post's Chris Cillizza put it in an online live chat late Wednesday morning: "I have heard NOTHING from Democrats about Alaska and given the other races they have to worry about in the Senate, it's hard for me to imagine them spending any money in the Last Frontier or targeting it in any significant way."
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