For obvious reasons, the past week has been one of the wildest and strangest weeks of one of the wildest and strangest years in Alaska's political history. But, the commotion didn't just start Friday morning.
Just as few politicos in the lower 48 comprehended why veteran republicans Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young stood any chance to win renomination in Tuesday's primary, few could have predicted that the intra-party grudge match between Young and challenger Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell would go into overtime. But, as the indicted Stevens breezed to renomination, the GOP primary for the House is nearly deadlocked.
While the state's first-term GOP governor has joined her party's national ticket in stunning fashion, the state's Democrats now have excellent chances to defeat two members of the state's all-GOP delegation to Washington with a combined 75 years of federal experience.
It's like the Land of the Midnight Sun meets the Twilight Zone.
With several thousand absentee ballots still uncounted, the 35-year incumbent Young is clinging to a 152 vote lead over Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell, who had the
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