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🗳️ IJR community pollinfluence-weighted · not a scientific poll
Alaska Survey ResearchJul 1Wilson 22 – Begich 22
Alaska Survey ResearchApr 19Begich 41 – Wilson 22
Lake Research Partners (D)Feb 11Begich 38 – Wilson 16
Budget:Opposes budget vetoes that send a message of division to investors in projects like Alaska LNG.[1]
Budget policy:Opposes governor budget vetoes to send a message of unity and attract investment for projects like Alaska LNG.[1]
Economy:Supports responsible resource development and long-term fiscal discipline to grow the economy.[1]
Education:Supports stable predictable education funding and increased investment in career and technical education, apprenticeships, and workforce training.[1]
Election integrity:Supports open primaries and ranked-choice voting; would not repeal the 2020 ballot measure.[1]
Election integrity: mail ballots:Would not repeal open primaries and ranked-choice voting.[1]
Election system:Supports maintaining open primaries and ranked-choice voting rather than repealing them.[1]
Energy production:Supports cutting energy bills in half through Railbelt transmission upgrades, large-scale hydroelectric power, and maximizing natural gas value.[1][2]
Foreign policy:Opposes any proposal for the US to acquire Greenland.[1]
Infrastructure investment:Believes Permanent Fund earnings should prioritize infrastructure investment over larger dividends.[1]
Open primaries and ranked-choice voting:Would not repeal open primaries or ranked-choice voting.[1]
Permanent Fund Dividend:Supports paying a dividend the state can sustainably afford rather than the full statutory amount during deficits.[1][2]
Ranked-choice voting:Would not repeal open primaries and ranked-choice voting.[1][2]
Social Security & Medicare:Supports only paying a Permanent Fund Dividend the state can sustainably afford, even if that means a smaller amount.[1]
Abortion:Supports a policy disallowing any municipal funds from paying for, promoting, or subsidizing abortions.[1]
Crime & policing:Supports investing in public safety and tackling homelessness as mayor.[1][2]
Economy:Supports developing oil, gas, mining, critical minerals, and timber resources to create jobs without raising taxes.[1][2]
Education:Supports ending bloated bureaucracy in schools to focus on reading, writing, and math while rewarding great teachers.[1]
Election integrity:Supports safeguards, transparency and security measures for free and fair elections.[1]
Election integrity: voter ID:Supports strong safeguards and security for free and fair elections.[1]
Energy production:Supports developing Alaska’s abundant natural resources including oil, gas, mining, critical minerals, and timber to create jobs and strengthen state finances.[1][2][3]
Government Reform:Supports a government that works for Alaskans with greater accountability and less bureaucracy.[1][2]
Government reform:Supports limited government, efficient government, and a user-friendly approach that serves the people.[1][2]
Housing costs:Supports securing control of Alaska’s land to make housing attainable and allow communities to grow.[1][2]
Infrastructure:Supports investing in roads, bridges, and ports to help businesses and families prosper.[1]
LGBT causes:Supports barring the public library system from sponsoring Drag Queen Storytime or shelving sexually explicit content in children’s sections.[1]
Parents' rights in education:Supports restoring parents’ rights in education and ending political agendas in schools.[1]
Permanent Fund Dividend:Supports a full statutory PFD so every Alaskan shares fairly in resource wealth.[1][2]
Regulation & permitting:Supports making the Alaska LNG project a priority and advancing the gas line.[1]
Sanctuary jurisdictions:Opposes adopting policies naming Anchorage a sanctuary city or preventing enforcement of immigration law.[1]
Taxes:Opposes raising taxes while developing resources to strengthen state finances.[1]
Women's sports:Supports amending code to require intimate facilities in municipal buildings be designated for and used exclusively by persons of the same biological sex.[1]
AI regulation:Supports regulating AI including liability, deepfake bans, disclosure in ads and child protections.[1]
Abortion:Supports defending Alaska women’s right to choose and ensuring access to contraception.[1]
Alaska Native culture:Supports revitalizing Alaska Native languages and culture.[1][2]
Alaska Native languages:Supports expanding the state's official language list to include Alaska Native languages and revitalizing Native culture.[1][2]
Ballot selfies:Supports allowing voters to share photos of their marked ballots, subject to restrictions near polling places.[1][2]
Bipartisan governance:Supports working across party lines and geographic divides in a bipartisan coalition mindset.[1][2]
Cell phones in schools:Supports getting cell phones out of classrooms.[1]
Classroom policy:Supports removing cell phones from classrooms.[1][2]
Crime & policing:Supports funding and equipping first responders and adequately funding the Village Public Safety Officer program.[1]
Criminal Justice / Public Safety:Supports funding and equipping first responders and the Village Public Safety Officer program.[1]
Criminal justice / public safety:Supports funding and equipping first responders and adequately funding the Village Public Safety Officer program.[1]
Data center regulation:Supports moratorium on new data centers until regulation, local approval and protection from rate increases.[1]
Data centers:Supports a moratorium on new data centers until comprehensive regulation is passed, with local approval and ratepayer protections.[1]
Education:Supports fully funding public schools, forward-funding education via constitutional amendment, paying teachers fairly, and creating defined benefit retirement for educators.[1][2][3]
Education forward funding:Supports a constitutional amendment to forward fund education and end annual budget uncertainty for schools.[1][2]
Education funding:Supports fully funding public schools, forward funding education, electives, extracurriculars, fair teacher pay and defined benefit retirement.[1][2][3]
Election integrity: mail ballots:Sponsored bill prohibiting return of absentee ballots by fax to strengthen election security.[1]
Election integrity: voter ID:Sponsored bill prohibiting return of absentee ballots by fax to strengthen election security.[1]
Energy production:Supports development of all energy sources including renewables, hydro, and natural gas to lower utility bills; requires Railbelt utilities cooperation.[1][2]
Fentanyl & drug enforcement:Proposed tax on opioid drugs to reduce consumption and fund treatment.[1]
Ferry system:Supports reviving the state ferry system.[1]
Fisheries:Focuses on fisheries issues and reducing bycatch.[1]
Forward funding education:Supports a constitutional amendment to forward fund education and end annual budget uncertainty for school districts.[1][2][3]
Free speech & tech censorship:Supports protecting ballot selfies as a form of political speech.[1]
Health care:Supports Medicaid expansion, partnering with tribal health organizations for federal funding, telehealth, and expanded scopes of practice.[1][2]
Housing costs:Supports building new homes to lower costs.[1]
Infrastructure:Supports reviving the state ferry system.[1]
LGBT causes:Supports legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.[1][2][3]
Lower energy costs:Supports development of renewables, hydro, and natural gas, plus Railbelt utility cooperation to lower utility bills.[1]
Marijuana legalization:Sponsored legislation to seal records of low-level marijuana crimes and reduce penalties for underage possession to a violation.[1][2][3]
Natural gas pipeline:Supports partnering with industry to develop an economically viable Alaskan natural gas pipeline.[1]
Opioid enforcement:Supports taxing opioid drugs to fund treatment and reduce consumption.[1]
Permanent Fund:Supports protecting the Permanent Fund.[1]
Public education:Supports fully funding public schools, forward-funding education via constitutional amendment, ensuring funding for sports and electives, removing cell phones from classrooms, paying teachers fairly, and creating a defined benefit retirement system.[1][2]
Public education funding:Supports fully funding public schools, reversing decline, and passing a constitutional amendment to forward fund education.[1][2][3]
Public safety:Supports funding police, fire, EMS and Village Public Safety Officer program.[1]
Railbelt utilities:Supports requiring the four Railbelt utilities to cooperate to provide cheaper electricity.[1]
Regulation & permitting:Supports moratorium on new data centers until regulations pass, with local approval and no ratepayer subsidies.[1]
Rural economic development:Supports sustainable rural economic development and growing the knowledge economy.[1]
School choice:Opposes school vouchers for private school tuition.[1]
School curriculum & activities:Supports sufficient funding for electives, sports, extracurriculars, and removing cell phones from classrooms.[1][2]
State budget balance:Supports balancing the state budget through new revenue, spending restrictions, and changes to the PFD formula.[1][2]
Taxes:Supports considering new revenue measures including a temporary state sales tax and oil tax increases.[1]
Teacher compensation:Supports paying teachers fairly, creating a defined benefit retirement system, and attracting and retaining educators.[1][2]
Teachers:Supports paying teachers fairly, creating defined benefit retirement, and attracting top educators.[1][2]
Teachers & staff:Supports paying teachers fairly, creating a defined benefit retirement system, and retaining educators in Alaska.[1][2]
Transportation:Supports reviving the state ferry system.[1]
Ukraine aid:Sponsored bill requiring state divestment from Russian investments in response to invasion of Ukraine.[1]
