What's up with the Alaska Senate race?

[MissB]

4. Well, it's a big state.

One of my siblings used to work for the post office up there. They’d have to fly into small villages on a small plane to get to the very small very local post office to do their tasks. Mail doesn’t get driven around each day in these small villages- it gets dropped of when a plane is scheduled to be in that village.

Folks in my industry would visit some small city’s infrastructure and would have to fly in on a small plane and sleep in a school gym (instead of a hotel, because none exist) while working on that infrastructure. Places are remote. You can’t drive to a lot of these places.

It’s just a big state with lots of small populations.


Way back when I lived and worked up there, I worked for a grocery store in anchorage. We’d get folks come in and buying 4-6 carts worth of groceries because they lived in quite literally the middle of nowhere. They get to vote too.