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who do you fellows like and who do you think has the best chance?

No need to mention the commie corksoaker. I'm certain no one here is a fan.

Robbins has the best chance... Almost certainly a runoff between him and the commie. Evans is a POS based on his performance on the Assembly and as proof he is a POS he stayed in the race when the handwriting was very easy to read. Bronson is a little too wrapped with a certain church. He is a long way behind Robbins and should have bailed, also. That would have probably saved the need for a runoff. Robbins has the most money and has from the very beginning.

Is evans the deep stater in the race?

Either of the other two are far better than the commie tree.

I live in the Valley, so my opinion doesn’t matter. I figure as other liberal like Dunbar will win. Anchorage is a lost cause these days. I really hope they wake the hell up though.

If Dunbar wins the slide into San Fran North will be nearly complete. He is a political operative of the highest order, and has been hand picked for this position. You are correct; Anchorage needs to wake the hell up.

I am shocked (not really) by the turn-around between Robbins and Bronson from the polls. Robbins was worked up about three goofy projects instead of fixing all the real problems. Bronson made a lot of headway. Hope Felix does not hear that...

Well, with Dunbarr in the lead as of last I read, I see Anchorage wants to remain socialists. I would say you get what you vote for, but at this point, I don’t see any hope for that place. I’ll just buy my time here in the Valley, until it makes its way here as well.

Uh... 59% voted for someone with a Conservative (mostly RINO) lean and 36% voted for Dunbar... I would say the tendency is for the runoff to go strongly against Dunbar...

I really hope Anchorage can get a strong conservative in there, but a RINO is better than Forest. I read there are still 10’s of thousands of ballots out. We all know how absentee ballots went in November though.

How butt hurt are the butt hurt?

I really have no dog in this fight since all of my eggs are in Aleutians East and Denali Borough baskets, but if skAnchorageans haven't learned from the Marxist douchebaggery of the last three years, they deserve all the evil that befalls them.

I have to admit, you are correct. Elections have consequences, and Anchorage has been going down the sewer fast over the past several years. If people can't wake up and see how bad these socialistic policies are, then I guess they'll have to live with them. Just too bad it spills over to the rest of Alaska, and directly impacts a lot of good, hard-working people left in Anchorage.

Well said.

Whudaya mean "bad?" If you're receiving the free stuff it's great. Unfortunately for the coalition (of "free stuff" and union worker crowd), the Dimocrat machine could not get enough street-bums to sign a ballot this time.

If they can just increase the number of street people a bit more, they can win every election, so long as so few working people bother to vote.

Alaska has been in destruction from the day they issued the permits to build the Alaska Pipeline. Before the pipeline even Anchorage was wonderful. The damn pipeline changed Alaska from frontier wilderness full of homesteaders, to one more American social disaster.

Looks like Bronson passed the pole smoker.

Omen for the runoff?

We can hope.

If the race runs the way it should the vast majority of Evans and Robbins voters should go to Bronson... the three totaled 51% of the vote. Falsey is not very popular but probably getting left-leaning votes and more of those in the middle. He will help Dunbar more than Bronson, but some of his votes will go to Bronson. Martinez only had 3%... it all depends on turnout...

Yes, it does depend on turn out. Hopefully the conservative vote turns out in great numbers.

I lived in Anchorage from the mid-60s to early 70s. Yes it was a great little city, and safe for a kid to roam about anywhere. I wasn't there at the height of the pipeline boom years, as I was living in Sitka, but even in the early 80s there were still a lot of pretty traditional minded folks doing the Alaska thing as often as they could get out of the city. In my opinion, Anchorage really went downhill when CSS and other agencies begin to settle a lot of government dependent foreigners in the city, and by doing so, they have created a whole new class of resident which likes big government. Also, Anchorage had no visible "homeless" problem in the 60s/70s, but that came about when nonprofits began to give them infrastructure and they started coming in droves. Now it is out of control and shows no sign of being solved. Add to that the latest "woke" crowd, and you have a piece of SanFran/Portland/Seattle landed right in Alaska. Sad really. Anchorage used to have a lot of independent folks. Now, except to visit my kids, I won't go there. I literally hate it.

I go to Los'Anchorage once a year for supplies and medical check-ups.

I'm hoping like hell that Eaglexit happens and we break free from that communist run city of Anchorage. The fact that Dunbar received as many votes as he did after what he and the assembly did to this community just boggles the mind.

It’s all of those transplant left coast people that love that crap! Anchorage is full of them. Eaglexit would be a good thing, but I don’t see it happening. Anchorage would be losing a ton of property tax revenue.

It might be worthwhile seeing the real rate of return on tax income versus costs...

And I am all for it, especially to control the size of the school district.

You could break up the city/muni and still leave the school district alone. Heck the Mat-Su is a school district of the borough not individual cities. It’s like that in many areas of the lower 48.

Last time I dug into it ASD had a budget about #70 in the US. The "economy of scale" excuse rings very hollow when they spend so much per student and management overhead is ridiculously bloated. They will eliminate a teaching position and hire a new manager to console the staff immediately.

To be clear, getting out of the ASD is the very best reason for ERxit.

Anchorage just "NEEDS" a 9.5% sales tax, and it will be "perfect".