A total of 3,726 Alaskans cast votes on the first day of early in-person voting in Alaska on Monday, bringing the grand total of Alaskans who’ve already voted in this year’s general election to 46,322.
The polling is in line with some other recent polls in Alaska, which have also shown Gross holding a slight edge on the race in its final stretch.
The race is still far, far from a lock—it was recently upgraded to “leans Republican” by the Cook Political Report—but Harstad outlines several positive points for Gross in his memo.
A staggering 1 in 10 covid tests taken in the Fairbanks North Star Borough are coming back positive.
Overall, it shows the measure has the support of 59% of voters while 17% of voters oppose the measure and 24% are undecided.
A statement from the pollster accompanying the results notes that Republicans have been regularly in Alaska underperforming in recent years and that this year’s presidential election may be a boon to Gross.
The word “insurmountable” comes to mind.
The one category Republicans are leading Democrats is in early in-person voting. As of Friday, they’ve cast 210 ballots this way while Democrats have cast just 105 absentee ballots in person.
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Snyder, who came within 200 votes of unseating Republican Rep. Lance Pruitt in 2018, has raised more than any other legislative candidate this year.