IN MAINE, RANKED-CHOICE VOTING WAS A REACTION TO GOP WINS. SUSAN COLLINS MIGHT BE ITS FIRST VICTIM.

The Intercept ^ | November 3 2020, 8:28 p.m. | Eoin Higgins

[mainerforglobalwarming]

Not a Collins fan, but voted for her. Congrats to her and her team.
I would imagine there will be some folks who don’t vote for a second choice in round 2,nd some of Linn’s will go to her. so she’ll probably hang on and win.
Last I heard 160 million spent on this race. Amazing.

[metesky]

The first victim was Bruce Poliquin two years ago. It.s a rigged system and sucks out loud.

You bet on a winning horse and the horse wins. Oh boy! But wait... your horse only won 49% of the betting pool. The second and third horses got 51% collectively. You lose. Are you fucking shitting me?

[HamiltonJay]

Well the last 12 hours have been crazy...

Collins holding her seat, and generally GOP holding Senate is a brighter spot.

[metesky]

We have our problems with Collins, but she’s a down to earth person who travels around Bangor without an entourage. I have stopped her in the aisle up at Hannaford’s on Union Street and chewed the fat for a couple of minutes with no problems at all.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

Yeah, and folks have got to stay positive. In Maine democrats have a huge registration edge. And yet it looks like President Trump won CD-2 as well as Collins.

[SunkenCiv]

Ranked-choice voting is another jackbooted tramp down the road to a single-party state, and should be invalidated by the SCOTUS.

That said, Collins was the victim of Collins.

[Brown Deer]

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/11/04/collins-maintaining-lead-over-gideon-in-senate-race/

[Zhang Fei]

[We have our problems with Collins, but she’s a down to earth person who travels around Bangor without an entourage. I have stopped her in the aisle up at Hannaford’s on Union Street and chewed the fat for a couple of minutes with no problems at all.]

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That’s pretty cool. You expect that kind of open attitude towards constituents from some state assemblyman, but not a hoity toity US Senator.

[wareagle7295]

Holding on to the Senate is the only thing that kept me from completely going off the edge today.

[Zhang Fei]

[Holding on to the Senate is the only thing that kept me from completely going off the edge today.]

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If Trump’s legal maneuvering bears fruit, we may get more than a consolation prize. Fingers crossed.

[Paladin2]

Ross Perot runs, we get Clinton, twice, AFAICR.

[polymuser]

The Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) Act

https://www.fairvote.org/the_ranked_choice_voting_act

How Election 2016 Would Be Different With Ranked-Choice Voting

https://www.newsweek.com/2016/10/28/election-2016-voting-science-510662.html

RCV simulator:

http://www.rcvsimulator.com/