Commentary

Thankfully, only one of the four candidates for governor in the Nov. 3 statewide general election needs a refresher course in math. The rest know that 2 plus 2 equals 4. But Republican Bernadette Wilson, running for her first elected public office, is proving to voters that numbers don’t need to add up when you want to win bad enough.

Wilson, who garnered a mathematically unremarkable 10% of the votes in the August primary election, which was good enough to make the Final Four, is campaigning for governor on the promise of a bigger Permanent Fund dividend than Alaskans have ever seen.

Even bet...