。阿拉斯加民主党参议院候选人佩尔托拉女士的政治立场颇为复杂：她支持枪支、石油和天然气——但也支持环保，尤其支持鱼类保护。
‘She’s One of Us’: Mary Peltola’s Bumpy Rise to Political Power Ms. Peltola, the Democratic Senate candidate in Alaska, has complicated politics: She is pro-gun, pro-oil and pro-gas — but also pro-environment and especially pro-fish.
在库斯科奎姆河浑浊的棕色水域旁，在这片只能通过飞机或船只抵达的地区，穿过被天气摧残的柳树和简陋的季节性渔场，狗在低垂阴沉的天空下，沿着泥泞坑洼的道路游荡。
Hard by the murky brown water of the Kuskokwim River, in a region reachable only by plane or boat, past weather-stunted willows and crude seasonal fish camps, dogs roamed muddy, rutted roads under low, dreary skies.
在阿拉斯加西南部广阔苔原上的小村庄克韦斯卢克，在一栋未粉刷外墙、木台阶腐烂的房屋窗户上，贴着一张玛丽·佩尔托拉的竞选标牌。“我们有亲属关系，”屋内的人说道。
Here in the small village of Kwethluk in the vast tundra of southwestern Alaska, in the window of a house with unpainted sides and rotting wood steps, was a campaign placard for Mary Peltola.
77岁的詹姆斯·尼科里坐在椅子上，讲述了他与这位竞选参议员的民主党人佩尔托拉女士之间的阿拉斯加原住民联系。
“We are related,” said the man inside. James Nicori, 77, sat in his chair and unspooled his Alaska Native connection to Ms. Peltola, the Democrat running for the Senate.
“玛丽的曾祖母和我的祖父是半姐弟关系，”尼科里先生说。他说，她的母亲曾在这里生活过。她曾在这里生活过。
“Mary’s great-grandma and my grandpa were half sister, half brother,” Mr. Nicori said. Her mother was a girl here, Mr. Nicori said. She was a girl here.
“她理解我们的艰难处境，”他说。“她是我们中的一员。”佩尔托拉女士是一位前国会议员，是一位能力出众的候选人。在共和党人远多于民主党人、独立人士又远多于前两者的阿拉斯加，她是党内少数被证明能赢得全州选举的成员之一。今年，她驾驶四轮越野车和浮筒飞机，穿着Xtratuf靴子和阿拉斯加原住民尤皮克人传统的库斯普克衬衫进行竞选。她曾前往距离俄罗斯仅30多英里远的岛屿等偏远地区，在制作社交媒体片段的同时，对时区相差四小时的主流媒体保持若即若离的态度。这一策略在很大程度上是有效的。佩尔托拉女士在八月的无党派初选中击败了共和党现任参议员丹·沙利文，民调和筹款情况表明她可能在十一月再次获胜。
“She understands how we struggle,” he said. “She is one of us.” Ms. Peltola, a former congresswoman, is an uncommonly capable candidate. In Alaska, where Republicans far outnumber Democrats and independents far outnumber both, she is the rare member of her party who has proved she can win statewide. This year, she has campaigned on four-wheelers and floatplanes, in Xtratuf boots and traditional kuspuk shirts worn by the Indigenous Yup’ik people of Alaska. She has made stops in locales as isolated as an island 30-some miles from Russia, curating social media snippets while playing hard-to-get with most of the mainstream press four time zones away. The approach has been largely effective. Ms. Peltola beat the Republican incumbent, Dan Sullivan, in the nonpartisan primary in August, and polling and fund-raising suggest she could do it again in November.