Wally Hickel endorsed Barack Obama in an Anchorage Daily News op-ed nine days ago. Tony Knowles has come out in radio ads supporting the Illinois Senator. Now, ex-Alaska Representative and U.S. House candidate Ethan Berkowitz has joined in. He just endorsed Obama on CC's Cutting Edge on KUDO. On the national level, Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy endorsed Obama this morning.There has never been such interest in Alaska presidential caucuses before, at least that I can remember. Moving the date to Super Tuesday helped, but as I've been saying since early November, interest in ALL Alaska races by progressives is rising, as - generally speaking - the far right here is sinking, reeling and depressed.
I'm going to try to find out if registration numbers for either the Republican Party or for the Democrats here are up.