"You don't have the money, you don't have the logistics, you don't have a lot of information," said Warren Keogh, a former Mat-Su Borough Assembly member who was trounced in his 2014 independent bid for state Senate by the Republican incumbent, Mike Dunleavy.
In short, Keogh said: "It sucked."

I can attest to Warrens pain over this. It did suck. He worked his tail off in a district that has been cut to pieces by the Republican party gerrymandering.  For someone other than a Republican to win would have taken much more money, and help from the Democratic party to even come close.
The better man lost, and now we are paying the price.