Must Read Alaska newsletter readers participating in a reader survey said they want business owner Bernadette Wilson to run for governor of Alaska.
Must Read Alaska ran three polls over three weeks. In the first survey, several leading names were posed as possible candidates for governor, including four Republicans and Mary Peltola as the Democrat. That survey showed Bernadette Wilson with an overwhelming lead over others, such as Commissioner Adam Crum, Attorney General Treg Taylor, and Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom.
The second survey posed for different Republicans and Mary Peltola as the Democrat. In this survey, Shelley Hughes, senator for Palmer and some of the Mat-Su Valley, smoked the competition, which included Peter Micciche, Natasha Von Imhof, and Edna DeVries.
For the third survey, we took the top four Republicans from the first two weeks and kept Peltola as the Democrat. In this one, it tightened between the leaders, with Wilson edging out Hughes by a couple of points.
The emergence of two conservative women may show that super-voting conservatives in Alaska want a governor who represents their values. With Wilson as the top vote-getter, we may be seeing an electorate is hungry for business leaders like Congressman Nick Begich and President Donald Trump.
Hughes and Wilson are friends, and neither has announced their intention to run for governor, although they have both been considering it. So have the other names offered in the two preliminary polls.
Not included in either poll were names like Click Bishop or Forrest Dunbar, both of whom have been mentioned as possible candidates. It’s unclear whether Sen. Lisa Murkowski will try for it, as her father did before her.
The poll is not scientific. The newsletter goes out to 33,000 Alaskans, and in the final poll, more than 800 of them took the survey. The readers of the newsletter are typically conservative and are super-voters and political activists. There are a reliable number of Democrat operatives who also read the newsletter, as they graze for political intelligence.
Must Read Alaska publishes a newsletter three times a week and runs the “Question of the Week” every Monday and Wednesday, with results published every Friday. Subscribe at this link.
Where’s Jamie Allard in this group? Now SHE would be worth voting for.
Jamie would be great as well. Yes.
What I meant to type in my initial post was Chris Tuck could be the Lt Governor, not V.P. I guess that’s what I get for posting a spontaneous, snarky comment. I also could have listed his other possible position in a new administration. Maybe… the Governor’s mansion Nanny?
I would support Hughs first and Wilson second. Either way I would support one of the two. Let’s get an early start because the outside corrupt democrats will be spending big money to turn the governors office blue.
I’m with you, Andrew. Hell, Bernadette is pretty enough to be governor. I’d vote for her three or four times; I hope you’d be willing to do the same!
How about Hughes or Wilson for governor and the other run against that perennial scum bag Princess Lisa.
Suzanne LeFrance will be looking for a new job next year IMO and would be a strong candidate for either Governor, US House or US Senate IMO. Trump cratering our economy will be an anchor on Begich and Sullivan
You mean LeFrance didn’t make the list? Obviously the poll failed to capture Anchorage’s ever expanding homeless vote.
It would be nice to see LaFrance out as mayor. The assembly out with her. Somehow the voter turnout out of about 17% just doesn’t seem to be getting it done. Crazy, right?!
I don’t think she’s going anywhere.
Wrong again on all counts Frank, as usual. The economy is moving up, inflation is (slowly) coming down and more companies are moving manufacturing to America than ever before. I know you don’t like to cloud your posts with facts but hey…Also you must be dense to think that anyone outside of liberal anchorage would vote for La France. What are you smoking these days?
Perhaps she could bring some of her brilliant homeless policy that she has so craftily honed while occupying the mayoral seat in Anchorage to the whole state, huh Frank. Oh, wait, that has been a miserable and unmistakably clear failure even to the point where her solid supporters on the assembly are and have been jumping ship.
Maybe she could fulfill Dunleavys campaign promise of providing the statutory dividend.
Bernadette Wilson v. Mary Peltola for governor in 2026? The debates would be fantastic.
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Wilson would kick Peltola’s *as all the way back to Bethel. Such a fun race.
She needs some apparel advice before hitting the campaign trail. Cigarette-jeans and red f-me pumps don’t quite send the right message….
Although we don’t like to admit that something we are supposed to admit is merely superficiality- the way someone dresses, especially a woman (oh the horror you sexist pigs!)- this stuff actually does matter.
She looks just fine and is dressed quite appropriately in the photo taken considering it was at the Red White and Blue truck rally last summer. Clearly you don’t know her or have never seen her at the many speaking engagements, political functions, non-profit fundraisers or policy think-tank forums around the state. A classy lady she is. I’ve only seen her dressed in an appropriate, professional, and modest way. You should get out more.
RCV means a possible split vote again.
For contrast and for pubic satisfaction, Lisa should be included. A relatively honest run poll would be confirmation one way or another in the world of polls.
Freudian slip?
Shelley Hughes all the way. Seriously proven track record and guts. I could see her running against Murkowski as well. I don’t know enough about Bernadette although she seems very sharp.
Bernadette for Governor? Is this an April Fools joke?
Tres chaud, ma chere
Va va va boom
Please give us Gov Redux candidate Sarah Palin with running mate Lora Reinbold. Just for fun.
Asking only friends and buddies if they agree with you is not the best way to find the most likely electable candidate. Republicans way underperformed president Trump in Alaska. Think about how unlikely that is. It is going to take broad recognizability and someone who appeals to the undecideds especially with RCV. Like it or not that is the system we have to use to win. I still think the Dems get all they need with Click Bishop. They have no need to run anyone competitive. Likely the Repubs run a bunch, shoot at each other and wonder why it all went wrong. They will however go big on balloons and flags.
Click Bishop is my personal favorite. He is conservative, has the support of the Unions, knows the players, and most importantly he understands our State. Alaska would benefit with his lead.
Years ago I was forced to join a union as a condition of my employment. When I went to the office in Anchorage to sign up every wall was plastered with campaign signs. Every one of those signs was from a Democrat. And I mean every one. No Alaska union is going to support or endorse a Republican. And if one ever does, that’s not the best Republican for that seat.
Better look closer folks, BW is a very mixed package. We all know not to get on a bandwagon until we’ve really done some homework.
You failed to include Chuck Kopp!