According to federal disclosures, Put Alaska First, the pro-Begich super-PAC, raised $3,647,539 between April 1st and June 30. Only $90,000 came from donors other than the Senate Majority PAC, which is run by former aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Well known Democratic donor and real-
This is entirely adequate evidence that the Alaska US Senate race is a contest between President Obama and Senator Reid on one side and Alaska voters on the other side. Senator Begich himself becomes less and less a part of the equation as the weeks go by.
Just last night I heard my wife tell a pollster, in answer to a question I could not hear, “I am voting for anybody but Begich.” I really think Alaskans will decide in November whether they want more of the Reid Senate and more Obama appointees to federal courts. Alaskans can change the Beltway arithmetic, and that is why all this money is coming to the Begich campaign.