What is the norm for voting in Alaska and what are the consequences of this kind of voting behavior?
Correct as usual Elise. That is the norm in Alaska: Mindlessly vote conservative, complain bitterly when those you voted in do exactly what they always do, threaten to vote them out of office, then vote them in again after yet another calculated scare campaign during which the Republicans haul out the dreaded Liberal Boogey Man and scream "BOO!" It's sheer stupidity and laziness on the part of the electorate.  Those that keep voting these scoundrels in year after year get what they deserve, while the rest of us continue to be held hostage to their idiocy.  Not that I am bitter.