I’d say they were close enough in votes that they should flip a coin with the loser dropping out.
Yep
Probably Murkowski’s stooge.
Plenty of Dems switched over to kill off Palin. But I do believe she will win the actual election.
For a state with such a small population, Alaska is surprisingly corrupt politically.
Those two should at least come together and inform their supporters to do the following: Vote Begich-1 and Palin-2 or Palin-1 and Begich-2.
This would avoid the spoiler effect from exhausted votes. If about 60% of those exhausted votes were for Palin, she would have won.
I hate ranked choice voting but we have to adapt to it for the time being.
He’s a paid spoiler. It’s impossible for her to “get through” to him.
Alaskans weren’t familiar with how RCV worked before the results came out. Now they are. Palin will likely win outright in November.
My big concern is getting rid of Murkowski.
Since no candidate got 50%, there ought to have been an automatic runoff with the two leading candidates.
If Begish dropped out, his supporters will vote for their second choice. Palin didn’t fetch enough of his voters second choices to win the special. Palin needs to appeal to more of Begish’s voters, to mark her as their second choice to win against the Democrat.
I suggest the way to do this is to make a joint appearance with Begish and ask all Republicans to mark Republicans as both their first AND second choice.
Any conservative that can look at that situation and not see that most of the Republican Party are lying Mittweasel Assistant Democrats, needs his or her mental capacities examined.
Begich is foetid dog squeezins.
Reminds me of the way Ross Perot handed the WH to the klintons...
He screwed up there, but he was sure right about spreading our legs for the mexicans...
Maybe palin should drop out if it can keep the seat republican. We need every seat to get a majority.
Begich is a perfect deep stator
Lordy how I dislike these cock roaches
Begich’s grandfather was a RAT. I’m not sure Nicky is really a Republican.