What's up with the Alaska Senate race?

[BlueStater]

It still hasn’t been called. After two days, it’s only 50% in. As of now, Sullivan has a huge 30 percentage point lead over his Democratic opponent (Al Gross).

[sweetloukillbot]

1. Mail in ballots from remote locations I think

And Gross has said he will win with the mail-ins

[LovingA2andMI]

2. It's Early....

And We Might want to watch it.

[dweller]

3. Dog Sled Express

Mail delivery ...

✌🏻

[MissB]

4. Well, it's a big state.

One of my siblings used to work for the post office up there. They’d have to fly into small villages on a small plane to get to the very small very local post office to do their tasks. Mail doesn’t get driven around each day in these small villages- it gets dropped of when a plane is scheduled to be in that village.

Folks in my industry would visit some small city’s infrastructure and would have to fly in on a small plane and sleep in a school gym (instead of a hotel, because none exist) while working on that infrastructure. Places are remote. You can’t drive to a lot of these places.

It’s just a big state with lots of small populations.


Way back when I lived and worked up there, I worked for a grocery store in anchorage. We’d get folks come in and buying 4-6 carts worth of groceries because they lived in quite literally the middle of nowhere. They get to vote too.

[kgrande63]

5. only day of votes have been counted

Alaska is doing this in two distinct parts. Part 1 is finished now. The day of vote and the early vote is completed and the leaned heavily GOP. However, there are about 150,000 mail in ballots which need to be counted and they come from all over the state. Apparently they are very blue. 60% blue is not enough but 70% and Gross wins. Gross seems very confident in the numbers. Part of Trump demonizing mail in voting is that very few people in the GOP voted that way. Even in very red counties the Dems are doing well. In blue counties around Philly for example that blue rate has been 85% to 90% .