Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* We should learn tonight whether Democrat Mary Peltola, an Indigenous Yup’ik fisheries manager and former state representative, has defeated former half-term Gov. Sarah Palin in Alaska’s congressional special election.
* Political reformers hoped to get a sweeping election reform proposition on Arizona’s statewide ballot this year, but the state Supreme Court agreed to throw out most of the nearly half-million petition signatures collected.
* In Georgia’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, the latest Emerson College poll found Republican Herschel Walker with a narrow lead over Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, 46% to 44%. Most other recent polling has shown the incumbent ahead.
* On a related note, the same Emerson poll showed incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp leading former Democratic state Sen. Stacey Abrams, 48% to 44%.









