Posted on 08/17/2022 4:39:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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We got rid of Cheney (at least at a Congressional level) and we gained Sarah Palin.
I guess they mistyped. I think they meant am
Alaska has a crazy system (”ranked choice”) which they implemented for the first time this year.
Basically it’s not worth voting, because if your candidate comes in last, your candidate and your votes are removed and added to the totals of the other candidates...the lowest one is then removed...and so on.
We need to go back to closed primaries, where you have one person voting in person for another person of their party on election day (although as in the past, accommodations can be made for people who are home-bound, traveling or for some other legitimate reason can’t make it on election day). Even a couple of days of early IN-PERSON voting would be okay.
But no open primaries, ranked choice, mail-ins for all, etc.
There was no "Republican Senate primary" - no such thing as party nominees in Alaska anymore with the open jungle primaries.
Based on these results she is in a very strong position. She will only need 6% of the voters to select her as the second choice in the general election if she holds the level of support she has in this primary.
If she holds this level of support in the general election, literally the only hope would be if 0% of Tshibaka supporters rank her as the second or third choice. However, even that won’t be enough if she holds this level of support and Democrats do rank Murkowski as a second or third choice. She would win easily. Something has to occur to sour Murkowski’s appeal, but I suspect she actually has no appeal and this is merely the Democrats uniting behind her to stick it to Trump...how do we undo that motivation?
1. Murk will be re-elected (by Dem voters)
2. Palin sworn in around 9/1 ?
3. Freepers can’t figure out the Alaska system ... which means?
“I believe VDH gives her no chance in the general.”
What is VDH and who is her?
What’s wrong with Alaska? Democrats and Rinos.
The author at The Hill is Julia Manchester.
I am wondering if she is the granddaughter of William & Julia Manchester (the author)
Her Supreme Court support for pro choice justices. That needs to be hammered home. It won’t help her on the right but will sour her on the left. Also, tax cut bill. Fight her like it were a Democrat primary.
Kelly also advanced so I read. I realized I don’t understand Alaskan elections. They advanced not won. Must as screwed up as California.
Must be...
Newsweek:
Alaska’s Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski and Trump-endorsed fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka have advanced to the general election from Tuesday’s primary, according to preliminary results.
I was actually impressed with Kelly's showing. She could pull this off in the general.
If the millions of Dark Many had not flooded in Ak to push this insane voting method - the R party would have had a closed primary
And L Mur Cow Ski would be history - again.
Alaska doesn’t need ranked voting, it needs a “Sore Loser” law.
Voted for Kelly as the mass of Dark Dough (Dem $$$) was spent to vilify Kelly - that tells me all I need to know.
“2. Palin sworn in around 9/1 ?”
I don’t see how we can say with certainty right now that it won’t be the DEMOCRAT being sworn in around 9/1. All that we do know for sure is that it won’t be any earlier than that.
That’s because the vote counters in Alaska have reserved themselves a couple of weeks (until 8/31) to play the Rigged Choice Voting three-card-monte/shell game and keep shifting votes from this candidate to that candidate and then they’ll ask us to believe that the outcome is totally valid and fraud-proof.
Maybe the outcome *will* be what we are all hoping for, but nobody without a working crystal ball can declare that enough Begich voters will “hold their noses” and vote for Palin — whom LOTS of them despise — instead of leaving their #2 ballot slot blank or even voting for the ultra-liberal Democrat.
That isn’t some phenomenon unique to Alaska; RINO voters in states like PA (Mastriano), Ohio (Vance), North Carolina (Budd), Arizona (Lake & Masters), Kansas (Kobach in the AG race) are already obviously running over to the loony left and supporting Democrats over conservatives whom they fear and loathe (as opposed to their feelings about liberal Democrats).
Except Begich is not a moderate nor a RINO.
One could argue that he’s more conservative than Palin.
Dudes,
I could argue that the real battle in the 2 primaries was for 4th place. With that in mind, for whom would you have voted?
Kelley for Senate? Populist Right. Bring more voters out in Nov?
In the House primary, the libertarians did poorly. It’s not clear whom the Sweeney voters will go for.
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