Huffington Post article about why Obama SHOULD come to Alaska. As if the opportunity to meet me were not enough.

Alaska, to the surprise of many pundits, is going to be very close this year. This stems from Republican office-holders apparently trying to take the "first in political corruption" award away from Louisiana. There are so many recent scandals involving Alaskan Republicans that it is almost impossible to keep track of them all. Bribery, corruption, graft -- apparently they were all par for the course for the GOP up north. Which is why Democrats even have a chance this year, because while most of these scandals didn't make the press down here in the "lower 48," they were splashed across the headlines in Alaska itself. And Alaskan voters have been paying attention.

The latest presidential poll from Alaska (from May 14) shows Obama behind McCain by eight points, 42 to 50. But this is already seven points higher than Kerry managed in 2004 (35 to Bush's 62) -- which in itself was a Democratic high-water mark in Alaska for the past four presidential election cycles. Meaning it is not completely out of the question for Obama to eke out a win there in November. Because (from the same poll) the Democratic challenger for Senator Ted Stevens' seat is actually running ahead of Stevens, 48 to 44. Mark Begich, mayor of Anchorage (home to something like 45 percent of the state's population), is making a solid run at one of the Senate's longest-serving incumbent members. Whether an Obama visit would help or hurt him this fall is an open question, but in my opinion it is worth the risk. Because it forces John McCain to spend money and time on a state he thought was solidly in his column.

Or maybe it wouldn't. Because the best part of Obama appearing at a rally for Begich is that Ted Stevens would be pretty hard for John McCain to support publicly. Stevens is the uncontested king of earmarks in the Senate (you may remember his "bridge to nowhere" from a few years ago -- especially the part where he stood up in the Senate and threatened to quit if his bridge to nowhere funds were redirected to Hurricane Katrina cleanup projects). And John McCain is apparently fantasizing about balancing the U.S. budget by getting rid of these pesky earmarks. So it would be inconsistent with McCain's current core campaign message ("earmarks are bad, mmm-kay?") for him to appear in support of the poster-boy for earmark abuse in the Senate.

I would like to take a moment to give my completely unbiased opinion on this possibility.

YES!!!!!

OBAMA NEEDS TO COME TO ALASKA! DEMOCRATS GAVE HIM 75% OF THE CAUCUS VOTE! WE LOVE HIM!!!! Too much?

There is so much for Barack to do and see when he gets here.

He can go fishing. He can enjoy our magnificent scenery. He can stay at my house. He can go on a scenic tour of Denali National park. He can stay at my house. He can go white water rafting. He can go kayaking. And, of course, he can stay at my house.

In other words there are numerous very attractive reasons for visiting this amazing state. Not to mention he may be the first Democrat to win Alaska in Presidential election in history!

Come to Alaska Obama, we promise not to bite.



Just ignore these guys they are simply curious.

They have never seen a superstar before.