Some links to the Alaska Primary. It will show you how farflung this state is

[roguevalley]

http://www.adn.com/article/20160326/landslide-victory-sanders-packed-alaska-democratic-caucuses

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2016-03-26/bernie-sanders-sweeps-alaska-caucus


Here is a link on Jane's visit.

http://www.adn.com/article/20160324/bernie-sanders-wife-campaigns-anchorage-alaska-democrats-prepare-saturday-caucuses



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Bernie Sanders' wife campaigns in Anchorage as Alaska Democrats prepare for Saturday caucuses
Devin Kelly
March 24, 2016
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Photos: Jane O'Meara Sanders campaigns for husband Bernie in Anchorage
Democratic Presidential Bernie Sanders’ wife Jane Sanders puts on a pair of silver earrings presented to her by Meda DeWitt Schleifman at the Lakefront Hotel in Anchorage, AK on Thursday, March 24, 2016. The earrings were made by her husband Tlingit artist Benjamin Schleifman. Dewitt Schleifman, a Tlingit traditional healer, asked about Sanders stand on payments through government programs such and Medicare.
Bob Hallinen / ADN

On Thursday, Sanders’ wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders, arrived in Anchorage to campaign for her husband. Neither Clinton nor Sanders were traveling to Alaska to campaign, but on Thursday, Jane Sanders arrived in Anchorage to help pitch her husband’s platform to voters. Plans for a drop-in dinner with supporters at Moose’s Tooth generated so much interest online that the campaign rescheduled it as an evening rally and town hall at Spenard’s Lakefront Hotel, formerly the Millennium Hotel. The campaign live-streamed the event online.

In an interview at the hotel Thursday afternoon, Jane Sanders reiterated her husband’s position that “too many decisions, both political and economic, are resting in the hands of too few people. “I think just as many of his supporters are not included in the decision-making. Alaska, because it is remote, is often not included in thinking,” Sanders said, interrupted occasionally by a hacking cough that she said she picked up from air travel. “We both wanted to come up here and hear directly.”

Sanders said she hopes her presence in the state will make a difference, and she plans to take voters' ideas back to her husband. She said she met with three tribal elders and talked about climate change and called Alaska’s practice of contracting with the federal government for Native health services a “success story.” Sanders was scheduled to fly to Dillingham on Friday for events that included a listening session on domestic violence and sexual assault and a meeting with Bristol Bay tribes opposed to the proposed Pebble mine.

(Note: Sanders' trip to Dillingham was called off Friday because of bad weather.)

“I like to, and Bernie likes to, see things firsthand,” Sanders said. Jane Sanders also plans to participate in a Saturday morning march in Anchorage before the start of the caucuses.

Asked whether Clinton’s quite well-known spouse, former President Bill Clinton, would make an appearance in the state, Alana Mounce, statewide director for the Clinton campaign, said, “You would be the first to know.”

Mounce said Clinton campaign volunteers had been calling voters in rural areas this week. The campaign also announced “get out the vote” phone banks in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau for Thursday and Friday, and Mounce said calls were also being placed by campaign volunteers in the Mat-Su and the Kenai Peninsula.

Those calls include talking to rural voters about Clinton’s stance on issues, such as her opposition to the Pebble mine project, Mounce said. Clinton’s campaign also released a list of policy proposals tailored to Alaska, which included promises to address climate change and reform the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

On Tuesday morning, Clinton appeared on an Anchorage pop radio show and took 10 minutes of questions from “Breakfast Club” morning show hosts Malie Delgado and Casey Bieber on a variety of topics. She repeated an oft-used talking point about how she was prepared to work in Washington by a job on a salmon "slime line" in a Valdez cannery in 1969 — a job from which she was fired after a week because, she has said in past interviews, she asked too many questions.

Earlier this week, Clinton’s campaign released a long list of political supporters in Alaska, including state Rep. Matt Claman, D-Anchorage, former Democratic state Rep. Katie Hurley, former Gov. Bill Sheffield and Anchorage Assembly Vice-Chair Elvi Gray-Jackson, as well as three former Alaska Democratic Party Chairs — Patti Higgins, Don Gray and Michael Wenstrup.

Susanne Fleek-Green, chief of staff for Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz, was listed among the supporters. Berkowitz, a former Democratic state representative, wouldn’t say Thursday whom he supports.

“Not Donald Trump,” Berkowitz said.

[bettyellen]

1. Interesting, thanks! I would guess the oil business tanking has had a great effect on voters there?

[roguevalley]

2. to some extent, yes. lots of uncertainty but Bernie isn't for oil. HRC is. This is beyond that,

bettyellen, which makes it that much more amazing.

[bettyellen]

5. It is interesting. I feel lucky my state is last voting, LOL. I can't feel as passionate as many

here, because our primary is an afterthought. And I am older, and tend to be too cynical for all the candidate worship that goes on - on both sides. I'm fine as long as we dump Trump in November.
Thanks for the informative and unbiased thread! There's all too little of that around here.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. I thought the article in the ADN about the caucus results was excellent.

I was amused by the "caucus of one" out in the Bush.

I went to Jane's town hall at the Lakefront. She was so gracious and "normal." Nothing about her presentation seemed canned or rehearsed. She would be a great First Lady.

[roguevalley]

4. I wanted to go SO BAD but I had to put on my shirt and shake it for Bernie. :D:D:D

Hugs, Blue. Good times.