Domenico Montanaro

And it's a very rural place.

People have a strong survivalist mentality.

Alaska is just a very big state.

I mean, if you were to lay it over the United States, I mean, it's roughly a

quarter to a third of the continental United States, depending on how you look at it on a map.

I mean, it's a big, big place.

So, you know, outside of the population centers of like Anchorage and Juneau, you know, you're going to have a whole lot more people covering a whole lot more territory.

And I think that that just it does something different, I think, to you as a person and how you think about the world.

I don't know what you think, Liz.

Well, that's the thing that we've seen in the last several election cycles.

I feel like Democrats have poured so much money into so many of these races, whether it's Senate or presidential elections, and really haven't been able to kind of get over the hump in a lot of places or at least the return on investment.

hasn't been equivalent to the amount of money that winds up going in.

It's almost like you get to a certain point that it's so saturated that there isn't really much more that you can do in these places.

I mean, when every single ad during the local news is now political ads, there's only so much more that you can put on those airwaves.

Well, and I would imagine in a state like Alaska, where you have people further apart from each other, that the GOTV efforts are a lot more complicated, more difficult.

You know, Liz mentions Murkowski, and I think that it's so important in thinking about her and thinking about the profile of Alaska itself and why Mary Peltola potentially upsetting a Republican is possible, because I think Lisa Murkowski has proven that anything is possible in Alaska.

I mean, she in 2010.

became the first senator in 50 years to win a write-in campaign.

To do that statewide is a near impossibility.

And she was able to pull it off.