Alaska is a Swing State After All!
10 03 2009I remember back before Sarah Palin was tapped as the VP nominee, when Alaska was considered….sigh…a swing state. I loved those days. Anchorage was swarming with Obama staffers and we really thought there was a chance Alaska would go blue for the first time since Lyndon Johnson. But alas, we all know the end to that story.
Well, now we learn that we’ve gotten that “Swing State” honor back again…but not in the way you might think.
It may be the long dark nights, the physical isolation, or all those conservative Republicans, but it turns out that Alaska is the #1 state in its membership per capita to the world’s largest site for swingers, adult chat and personal ads.
Yes, the numbers have been crunched, and analyzed and the public records at AdultFriendfinder.com don’t lie. In Alaska, there are 123 members of Adult Friendfinder per every 1,000 adults in the state. That’s a whopping 60,797 members out of a total adult population of 493,869. Yowza. We leave the #2 state, Wyoming, in the dust. They have a paltry 92.83 members per 1000 adults.
And Washington D.C., home to the nation’s most scintillating sex scandals, takes the bronze medal with 92.07 per 1000 adults.
And to satisfy your curiosity, the rest of the Top 10 “Swing States” are:
Nevada (91.67)
Hawaii (85.97)
Maine (81.81)
North Dakota (81.33)
New Hampshire (80.29)
Georgia (79.14)
Virginia (78.85)
But don’t forget, Alaskans…. We’re #1.
A hat tip and a stuffed green olive to Mudflatter Jeff for the number crunching!
March 10th, 2009 at 4:54 PM
SarahGates of Hell said Teal (16:42:26) :
how many un-wed Moms are Swingers…[might not be a fair question, cause some ppl might still 'be' planning to marry some day in the distant future, I suppose also]
Don’t know. Maybe you should ask Bristol and Levi Johnston! Rumors say he is a swinger…
March 10th, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Karin… that’s funny…LOL
it would be too freaking funny if the names from the Swingers List matched the Church members List….
March 10th, 2009 at 5:00 PM
bet ya they’re getting nervous, real nervous right about now….
March 10th, 2009 at 5:00 PM
swinger or player ?? swinger as in both ways a la “Brokeback Mountain” ??
March 10th, 2009 at 5:03 PM
…….and wives and SO’s snooping thru e-mails and demanding to see the credit card bill !!
March 10th, 2009 at 5:06 PM
OT kinda, but connecting just he same as some of GINOs ppl are bound to end up in prison….
Regina has writen a very detailed diary about….GINO’s PRISON GATE…highly recommended!
Sarah Palin’s Prisongate?
dailykos. com/ story/2009/3/10/9324/73109
March 10th, 2009 at 5:08 PM
HS kids don’t join swinger websites. They just text each other for hookups.
March 10th, 2009 at 5:09 PM
swinging as in ‘relating to one person then moving on to another person, [m/f]alone or in group….[hope I'm not sounding like an expert or something...]
March 10th, 2009 at 5:10 PM
I wonder how this information intersects with what we always say down Washington way about prospects for women heading north in search of men:
The odds are good, but the goods are odd.
(No offense Gryphen, Dennis, et al. AK male Mudpuppies excluded, I’m sure.)
March 10th, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Wonder what the changeable signs in front of the Wasilla churches are gonna say the sermon is about this week ??…..”Fidelity in the Home”
March 10th, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Levi is back in HS ?!?!
March 10th, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Let me try to reason this out as to why these states have shown up on this list:
Alaska – long winter, cold, somewhat isolated, something to do while having “coffee”
Wyoming – sheep and cattle can only do so much. . . .
Washington DC – Not enough pages and interns? Public bathrooms patrolled?
Nevada – not everything in Vegas stays in Vegas. . .
Hawaii – military base(s); nuff said.
Maine – see Alaska
North Dakota – see Wyoming
New Hampshire – close to Maine. . .so it’s the “neighborly’ thing to do . . .
Georgia – trying to get the South to rise again. . .
Virginia – see Virginia. . .
March 10th, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Wow! what happens in Alaska stays in Alaska. Wink Wink! Gino will be so proud.
March 10th, 2009 at 5:18 PM
CHURCH Announcement:
The Society for Women -in- Gents, [SWING] Meeting has been moved to the Spa Room. I mean the Baptism Room in the rear of the church.
March 10th, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Greytdog – too funny !! Wyoming – where men are men and sheep are scared…….
March 10th, 2009 at 5:22 PM
A funny short version of the Katie Couric/GINO interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07kO9TtHYzQ&feature=channel_page
March 10th, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Katie Couric wins Cronkite Award for Palin interview
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/10/katie-courics-sarah-palin_n_173661.html
Guess this means SP will be whining again about how Katie is using her????
March 10th, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Terry Tate is one funny dude…
March 10th, 2009 at 5:38 PM
It was almost 30 years ago that I moved to Alaska. I went to a potluck my first weekend in Ketchikan, and a grand old Scandinavian lady told me: “Here in Alaska, there are only three things to do: fishing, fighting, and fornicating. And no one fishes in winter.” Some things never change…
March 10th, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Levi is HS in habit and education level, I believe.
March 10th, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Lovely new post,
March 10th, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Did you notice how many of the top 10 voted red, or voter blue this election after a loooong stint as red states? Hawaii seemed to be the only reliable blue state there.
What’s that about practicing what you preach? How about it, red states!
March 10th, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Idaho is number 11. That is too funny.
March 10th, 2009 at 7:06 PM
I am very disappointed that MN did not make the top ten. I might have to move to AK after al–oh, wait, you still have the crazy Tina-Fey impersonator for a Guv’nator. Ferget it!
P.S. CA dreamin of AK, there was a study done of how much porn was consumed in different states (sorry, too lazy to look it up), and most of the top states were red states as well. Guess which was number one? Utah. Pertinent fact–eight of the top-ten porn-consuming states went with John McCain. Six of the least-ten porn-consuming states went for Barack Obama.
I looked it up after all:
voices.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2009/03/virginia_maryland_in_top_10_po.html?hpid=news-col-blog
March 10th, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Since apparently I used a word the censors didn’t like, I’m going to tailor a bit. Use your imagination to figure it out. AKM, go ahead and delete the other one.
I am very disappointed that MN did not make the top ten. I might have to move to AK after al–oh, wait, you still have the crazy Tina-Fey impersonator for a Guv’nator. Ferget it!
P.S. CA dreamin of AK, there was a study done of how much p0rn was consumed in different states (sorry, too lazy to look it up), and most of the top states were red states as well. Guess which was number one? Utah. Pertinent fact–eight of the top-ten p0rn-consuming states went with John McCain. Six of the least-ten p0rn-consuming states went for Barack Obama.
I looked it up after all:
voices.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2009/03/virginia_maryland_in_top_10_po.html?hpid=news-col-blog
March 10th, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Adult chat? What the heck is that? Is that like… one-handed typing? Perhaps a cottage industry is in the making for Alaska? As in hand towel production. …
March 10th, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Hm, what an interesting thing for which to be #1. Bet I can guess some names on that list…
March 11th, 2009 at 1:56 AM
Change we can believe in ……….
http://nynerd.com/change-has-come-to-the-whitehouse/
March 11th, 2009 at 5:21 AM
austintx – I don’t get the point: size matters? Hah!
March 11th, 2009 at 5:40 AM
gov. Palin is making Huff today………going, going,………..soon to be gone.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/10/sarah-palins-biggiest-leg_n_173728.html
Good one Shannyn Moore!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/palins-servants-heart-nee_b_173552.html
March 11th, 2009 at 7:39 AM
I missed this Kieth Oberman and Arianna Huffington talk about the Repubs……bottom line is Rush, Joe the Plumber and Palin are standing out as the sum total of intelligence for the republican party right now, which they agreed ain’t sayin too much, lol.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/arianna-on-icountdowni-di_b_173340.html
March 11th, 2009 at 8:09 AM
Ms. Rice could’ve been been indicating W’s attention span…..
March 11th, 2009 at 12:03 PM
I am very late to this thread – but I just wanted to put a burr under your saddles about the idea that you are ‘not’ a swing state based upon the results of the presidential election.
I (and most of my friends) found it quite odd that the election predictions done by Nate Silver from fivethirtyeight.com were 99% accurate for every single state except Alaska. I also find it odd, when the results were first announced that Stevens had won when the polls said Begich was ahead. Fortunately, that one was close enough for a recount and Begich actually did win – and just about by the amount that had been predicted by fivethirtyeight.com.
Makes me wonder if an informal recount might be done by some interested parties to verify the results of the Obama/McCain contest as well. Obama was supposed to carry the state by a small margin.
Like I said – just seems odd that Alaska was the one place where Nate Silver didn’t get it right.
March 11th, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Tennessee would be on the list if 79/1000 Tennesseans could read…
March 12th, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Well, Virginia IS for lovers. But North Dakota? Is it that boring?