The latest on the Alaska primary:

"There's a definite attitude of wanting a change, to the point where a lot of people don't care what it is. Just make a change; get them out. We hear that on both sides of the aisle, Republican and Democrat," said Diane Benson, a Native Alaskan writer and Democratic Party activist who is running for Young's seat.

Young is running neck and neck in the polls with his leading Republican challenger, Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell. Stevens appears likely to win the primary, but in a general election match-up, he is trailing Anchorage's Democratic mayor, Mark Begich.

"We could lose. This could become a blue state; Obama could take this state," said Anchorage developer David Cuddy, who leads the pack of six Republicans challenging Stevens in the primary. "Can you imagine if Sen. Stevens is spending the final five weeks of this campaign in a federal courthouse, facing felony corruption charges, and every night the news is covering it? He's going to lose 2-to-1 in November."

The internal Republican struggle, pitting moderates like Stevens and Young against Gov. Sarah Palin's supporters from the religious right, is the most serious of its kind in a state that hasn't favored a Democrat for president since 1964, said Carl E. Shepro, a political science professor at the University of Alaska.