“I think a lot of folks in Alaska are saying, ‘Oh, Lord, there’s always so much drama with her, you know, whether it’s her family in a brawl at a party in the front yard of a home, or you know, there’s the son beating up the dad, or I mean there’s just always something that’s going on that’s drama with them,” Fagan said on the air. “And it’s like ay-ay-ay, we’ve got to go through this again.”…

Palin had teased a reentry into politics so many times over so many years — for president in 2012 or 2016, for vice president, perhaps, or for U.S. Senate — that even when she hinted at the possibility, almost no one inside Alaska or out believed she was seriously planning to run. To many in her home state, she moved on when she quit the governorship. And they resent her for it still.

Moore said this resentment came up repeatedly in his polling of Palin, and her rivals are counting on being able to stoke it among voters.

At a Begich fundraiser in Fairbanks, Al Allen, who voted for Palin in 2006, said “she was more interested in being a reality TV star than serving Alaskans.”