Alaska’s U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Ted Stevens and Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich has been a toss-up for several months now, but the Democratic challenger is now ahead 50% to 41%. When “leaners” are included, Begich leads 52%to 44%.
Begich began running his first television ads of the campaign on July 8 and the survey was conducted nine days later.
For each of the last three months, the candidates have been within two points of each other. Last month, Stevens was up two, 46% to 44%. In May, it the incumbent trailed by two. The month before, Stevens had a statistically insignificant 46% to 45% lead. Begich’s current lead is the largest the race has seen since Rasmussen polling began.
Stevens is the longest-serving Republican Senator in history. Begich was just six-years old when Stevens was first elected to the Senate in 1968.
Stevens has never been this far behind in the polls during any re-election bid since he was first elected in 1968.
This is Alaska's time to finally throw off the heavy mantle of Republican oppression and get a progressive into the Senate that can lead Alaska into the future. And won't it be exciting to actually have a Senator who knows what the hell the Internet is?
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