This recession is going to be weird. With so many job openings right now, we are more likely to see businesses remove offerings than employees get laid off. The data won’t reflect what the workforce sees happening.

Yikes

Early voting is open, Alaska. Your turn.

Re: Alaska Special Election If everyone that voted for Begich first filled out a second choice, Palin needs 63% of those votes to win. If half of Begich voters left the second choice blank, Palin needs 77% of the second votes to win.

Called it

Alaska Elections: The narrative that Democratic voter turnout skewed the results in the primary doesn't quite work on its face. We'd have to dig a lot deeper into those Undeclared and Nonpartisan votes to really test the hypothesis.

Go vote!

We won’t know the official numbers until November 23rd, but it’s pretty clearly going to be Dunleavy, Peltola, and Murkowski with the wins.

At this point, it appears very likely that Alaska’s Senate and House will both be controlled by bipartisan coalitions. #akleg

After the update from elections last night, Palin needs 87% of the Begich\Bye voters to pull ahead of Peltola. If 14% left the second rank blank, or if Peltola picks up just 7% of those voters, Peltola wins.

My wife wins Christmas

Life after the Legislature kingeconomicsgroup.com/life-after-the…

My first post since returning to blogging. Let's talk about the PFD. kingeconomicsgroup.com/do-alaskans-re…

Maybe he’s correct 60% of the time and we have the interpretation backwards.

How to Turn Alaska Blue kingeconomicsgroup.com/how-to-turn-al…

How to Keep Alaska Red kingeconomicsgroup.com/how-to-keep-al…

Want to understand why we keep ended session the same way? Here you go: kingeconomicsgroup.com/the-reason-ala… #akleg