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Judy wrote:
Actually, what I heard was that they were voting for him so that the seat
remained Republican. Then if/when he goes to jail, the governor would get
to name someone to fill his seat. It could even be the governor herself.

If you believe what people were writing to the Alaska
papers, it was more along the lines of "UP YOURS,
OUTSIDERS!!" I can see where the Alaska political
establishment encouraged him to stay in the race because of
exactly those considerations, though.

Speaking of Alaska, one of my favorite set of polling place
photos showed up in a mushing blog. She's a photojournalist
as well as musher and the AP dispatched her to get some
photos of "real" Alaska:
http://wannabemusher.blogspot.com/20...hes-ruler.html
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