Ethan Berkowitz

Much of my coverage of Alaskan politics has been a somewhat amazed catalog of the deep, deep corruption in Alaska's Republican Party. The VECO scandal which brought down several Republican State Reps and threatens the entire Republican Party of Alaska, Representative Don Young, with a list of probably corruption about as long as I have seen, and Senator Ted Stevens, who I have declared possibly the most corrupt politician alive.

And Republican corruption has given Democrats a real chance at sweeping Alaska this year, with both Ted Stevens and Don Young lagging in the polls and Obama and McCain close to even (depending on the poll looked at). Nationwide Republican corruption led to voters rejecting the Republican Party in favor of what they hoped would be change from the Democratic Party. Yep...the idea of change didn't start with Obama, it started with the voters in 2006.