Ellison’s Election Tip Sheet
Homestretch Polls
With four days left until election days—here are three polls, from this week, that should be on your radar. Mark Begich’s Bold Debate Lie Easily Debunked By Anyone With Access to Youtube
I Went to Mark Begich’s Carson City Resort
FEATURE: The Alaska Democrat owns a Lake Tahoe retreat
CARSON CITY, Nev.—Not far from Lake Tahoe, just around the corner from the Comstock Casino, within two miles of no fewer than nine trailer parks, is a resort owned by a U.S. senator.
It bills itself as a resort, anyway.
Democrat Sen. Mark Begich’s home state of Alaska is proudly not of the mainland. “Outsider” is a political epithet in Alaska, one Begich has used against Republican challenger (and former state attorney general) Dan Sullivan. Dan Sullivan Slams Mark Begich’s Weak Position on Islamic State
The Democratic Panic
New Ad Slams Mark Begich Over Broken Promises
Ellison’s Must Read of the Day
My must read of the day is “A Tiny Alaskan Island Halfway To Russia Could Decide Control of The Senate,” in Talking Points Memo. The Macaca Democrats
Column: Why the GOP Is Winning Election 2014
Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary: For the first time in a decade, it is the Democratic candidates, not the Republican ones, who are fodder for late-night comics. That the Democrats are committing gaffes and causing scandals at a higher rate than Republicans not only may be decisive in the battle for the Senate. It could signal a change in our politics at large. 