This photo of a rally sign from the D.C. Restore Sanity Rally came from Mudflatter Cassie Jeep Pike Palin! Anyone else who wants to send a photo of a rally you attended, pass them along to akmuckraker@yahoo(dot)com!

So here are some of the photos from yesterday. The weather was actually good, with a beautiful blue sky. It was a nice gathering and exactly the right length–one hour–so that no one got TOO cold. John and Heather Aronno (leaders of the Young Democrats and bloggers on Alaska Commons) Of course, the best part [...]

What a great day.  It’s been a whirlwind trip to say the least. Running on no sleep and lots of coffee. Both are catching up to me at the moment but I’ll leave you with one of the many pictures I shot at the rally in DC today.  Rally-goers sit on the steps of the [...]

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) released their latest commercial for the benefit of Scott McAdams, describing Lisa Murkowski’s mischaracterization of her political stances: The video is great and the message is spot-on. This gives me the opportunity to talk about a piece of Senator Frank Murkowski’s history where we can see Lisa following in [...]

It starts in about an hour (1:00 pm) at University of Alaska, Anchorage. Special guests include Scott McAdams and Shannyn Moore! (P.S. Did you see our fearless leader, AKM, on T.V. at the D.C. Rally this morning?)

As a large girl myself, I’m infuriated but not surprised by the ignorant Conservatives, (or DINOs, or folks with mental health issues) who can find nothing to use against Sitka Mayor and US Senate Candidate Scott McAdams except his size:   –ADN ”AK-Voices” right-winger, Brian Sweeney forgoes credibility in lieu of insulting size-references to Mayor McAdams in at [...]

I arrived a little bedraggled, but happy in Washington D.C. tonight. I’m not even pretending to try to adjust to the time difference so tomorrow should be interesting.  If you see someone on TV napping in the middle of the mall, it just might be me. My day started long ago, and as I arrived [...]

Recently, we all learned a good bit more about ol’ Moose Poaching, Divorce Lawyering, Journalist Arresting, Line in Sand Drawing, Computer Hacking, Farm Subsidy Taking  Joe Miller (I could add more, but really….it’s a bit much as it is. He should stop being such a hypocritical jerk so I don’t have to type so much). [...]

Back on October 13th, I posted about the APOC Complaint I had filed against the re-election campaign of Representative Bill Thomas, Jr. (above, on the left, with Sen. Al Kookesh, who appears in several of the ads.) The complaint is in response to a newspaper advertising campaign consisting of 12 ads which ran in the [...]

Time to rally! I will be headed out tomorrow at the crack of dawn for a whirlwind trip to D.C. to attend the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear with John Stewart and Steven Colbert, and thousands of their closest friends. I calculated that I’ll be in the air about as long as I’ll be [...]

For those of you who are loyal readers of the blog, I want you to bookmark the OLD blog site, in case you don’t have it any more. It’s mudflats.wordpress.com Right now it’s used for archives of all the 2008 election articles, but the old site has much bigger better faster servers than the new [...]

A new poll conducted by Hays Research confirms what we already intuitively know. Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller’s candidacy is in big trouble. The percentage of those who feel either “somewhat negative” or “very negative” about Miller has skyrocketed in recent weeks to an unbelievable 68%. Only 8% feel “somewhat negative” and the remainder, a [...]

Some shots from the live taping of the Rachel Maddow Show from the Taproot Cafe in Anchorage, Alaska!

In a rare moment of political kumbaya, both the Alaska Democratic Party and the Alaska Republican Party have sued the state for what they consider to be electioneering that unfairly favors Lisa Murkowski, the Republican write-in candidate for Alaska’s senate seat.  She seeks to retain her seat running against Joe Miller the Republican candidate, and [...]

Well, it was a pretty exciting night in Anchorage! Rachel Maddow came and filmed her Tuesday night show right here in our humble city. Before I go pour myself into bed, I thought I’d put up one of my favorite segments of the show. This is Rachel interviewing Vic Fischer, one of the original delegates [...]