For the good of Alaska, Nancy Dahlstrom should drop her bid for Congress, said one commenter on Dahlstrom’s campaign page on Facebook, adding “Alaskans need to stand together.”
After Dahlstrom posted a note on Facebook saying she was going to go forward to the November ballot, 86 people commented. All of those comments advised her, in no uncertain terms, to get out. There was just one commenter who told her to stay in the race, and that comment attracted disagreement and laughter emojis.
While paid political consultants in Washington, D.C. are convincing her to stay in, as they feed from the trough of campaigns, the feedback Dahlstrom is getting from Alaskans is uniform. In a poll in the Must Read Alaska newsletter, respondents overwhelmingly said she should drop: The poll went 95% against her.
After being in the race for nine months, she only has 350 followers on Facebook, but they are not being supportive of her current plan to stay in the race, where Nick Begich came in 23 points behind Rep. Mary Peltola, but where Dahlstrom is 30 points behind.
These are typical of the comments Dahlstrom is getting on her Facebook page, which we expect will be removed from her page soon:
