Posted on 11/09/2022 8:30:01 AM PST by Macho MAGA Man
Thanks to the GOP voting in ranked-choice voting, Sarah Palin has election taken from her again.
Sarah Palin deserves a special medal of honor for her attempts to make America a great country. The former governor of Alaska offered to help the helpless John McCain in his run for President and she was hammered by the media like no politician up to that point in history.
After helping McCain increase his popularity with the public, McCain threw her under the bus when he lost.
This past year, Palin ran for office again, this time for US Rep from Alaska. She ended up losing the election after the GOP had more votes due to the GOP pushing through ranked choice voting in the state.
Last night, Palin had her election taken from her again after the GOP had more votes but two candidates.
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Sarah should just have stayed down in America and left Alaska politics to Alaskans who actually live in Alaska.
I know for a time she was hinting about running in Arizona. I think she would have done well here.
No. People chose the Democrat over the other Republican as their second choice so the Democrat won. One of the Republicans should’ve dropped out.
To this day I don’t understand how ranked choice voting works. IIt just makes no sense to me.
No. In ranked choice voting, the voter chooses their first pick from all of the candidates on the ballot. They then choose their second pick from the remaining candidates. They then pick their third choice, etc.
If no candidate gets 50% + 1 first pick votes, then the lowest candidate is eliminated, and the voter's second choice is added to the above totals.
So for example, Mary Peltola got 47%, Palin 27%, Begich 24%, and Bye 2%. Nobody got 50% + 1, so Bye is eliminated, and all of the people who voted for Bye has their second choice vote counted.
If nobody has 50% + 1, then Begich is eliminated and the voters for Begich have their second choice counted, and any Bye voters who had Begich as their second choice then have their third choice counted.
This goes on until one candidate gets to 50% + 1 votes.
Since there were to Republicans in the race, but only one Democrat, the two Republicans got 51% of the vote, but split between two candidates. So the lone Democrat ended up winning.
No they get the 2nd choice of the eliminated candidate. So unough Begich voters prefered the democrat as their 2nd choice. This was predictable from the results of the primary.
that is the equivalent of voting MORE THAN ONCE!!!
I had to look it up as well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting
More BS.
One man, one vote, on one day, in person, on paper. Can’t vote because of XYZ reason on that day, or in person? To bad.
Stop all the manipulative games.
Election manipulation is as old as this country and the term Gerrymandering is a good example. It’s always been the case. But with all the electronic voting, mail in ballots, early voting, etc today, we open more and more doors for FRAUD.
Why not allow people to vote on their smart phones? Think of how convenient that would be?!?!?
No- it needs to go back to the basics: one day, on paper, in person, with ID and a finger print on the voting card.
The reason folks resist this isn’t because they care about someone who can’t vote for this or that reason. They WANT the system to be riddled with ways you can manipulate it and those that have the best organization in place to manipulate of course are the ones pushing for all these schemes the most.
Thanks for the explanation.
Palin used to be great, but when she got a Democrat elected governor in Alaska she jumped the shark.
Let me guess. You voted for the Democrat.
I doubt it. Kari Lake is a better candidate and it seems hard to beat the RAT vote machine there.
Shelf life for Palin was about 2012. She’s done politically...let her enjoy her family, write a book and go fishing for King Salmon.
Nope. If your candidate doesn’t win, they drop them and go with the second choice.
If she came in third on the first go ‘round, she is dropped.
If she made it past the first round, then her name wasn’t the second choice on many ballots.
She is finished.
It’s right out of grade school. It’s meant to make “close” elections, not so close.
Hard but not impossible. I still think Kari is going to win convincingly and maybe drag some of the other guys with her. I wasn’t imaging Sarah running for Governor or Senate off the bat, but working her way back up like she apparently tried to do in Alaska. She was and still is popular here. We have corruption here, but at least we don’t have a moronic ranked voting system like Alaska.
“So for example, Mary Peltola got 47%, Palin 27%, Begich 24%, and Bye 2%.”
In this example without Rank Choice, the Democrat (most votes) should have won anyways. The blame fully rests on Begich’s shoulders for not dropping out and spoiling this race.
I am sure the Establishment did not Palin in congress and spike her chances (would not doubt Mitch was involved).
Except according to the ranked vote, if he had dropped out, the democrat would have gotten enough of his voters to win anyway. Unless you could assume that some of those voters would have simply stayed home.
The republican party is getting really good at losing. Ever since we picked that guy who said we would get tired of winning, it seems what he meant was that we would actually stop wanting to win.
Sending a message is not nearly as fun as actually saving the country from the radical democrat agenda, but a lot of republicans have decided messages are all they care about.
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