I followed this as this was a race Carville said the Democrats put their heart and soul into winning back.
Why can't we count the votes in six hours or less like in my first election?
Since the article was written it is now 95% of the vote tallied and only 2/3 of one percent difference and although the Pubbie leads, the dang thing will go into this ranikng choice thing. The two independents are former Republicans who cost the incumbent and outright win.
That race I commented on the other day in a post...
Results page that updates as time goes on:
In California they chose between two Democrats for US Senator because of this.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-senate-primary-election-20160607-snap-story.html
A Republican wasn’t even on the ballot. That’s 6.5 million Democrat votes that shouldn’t count in the “popular vote” count that the snowflakes have manufactured.
My impression was it hurt accountability.
I was not impressed.
Could be worse. Could be voting like Kalifornia’s jungle primary.
It is bullshit and if the Republican loses this will be going to the SC because it is unconstitutional.
They seem to be trying to employ a parliamentary style election process to a US election. Of course, the Mainiacs have always been great Anglophiles and probably believe their patch of the US really belongs to Socialist Britain.
There's an organization called fairvote.org that has been promoting it for years even though it doesn't work. I have heard two theories as to why they are still promoting it:
When they chose it, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Once they were committed to it, they couldn't back down without losing face.
They are Cloward-Piven anarcholeftists who are using it as a tool to screw up democracy.
I followed the news from Maine when they were approving this crap. The people who wrote editorials for and against it were equally uninformed. Those who were for it could not explain why it was any good and were only vaguely familiar with what it was. Those who were against it were suspicious, but lacked the technical knowledge to explain why.
I worked as the Warden, person in charge, of a ward in Ellsworth, Maine. I have been following rank choice since the issue started to be discussed. All I can stay that the strongest advocates for rank choice were and are hard core left wingers. The Republican Party of Maine should have spent time and money trying to defeat it. I don’t think the party did.
I like Bruce Poliquin, but he’s such a squish. Anyway I think in CD2, it went for Trump, Bruce might pull this out. It would be the one saving grace to a dreadful election here in Maine.