I was in Maine at the time of that election.
Maine 2nd District. I was up there during the 2016 election cycle in Boothbay, watching the New England Patriots in a crowded bar on the water, couldn’t hear the television, but a political commercial came on.
The guy was young clean-cut guy, on the shooting range with an AR-15 (IIRC) and apparently talking about his military service in Iraq. I couldn’t hear it, but it was pretty clear, showing him shooting, then in uniform in Iraq as the commercial progressed. A combat veteran. Gun owner. Seemed pretty good.
I was impressed from the commercial visuals, and even though I had no idea, he seemed to be marketing his campaign to people like me.
So, armed with a strictly visual impression (remember, no sound) I looked him up later that night when I got back to where we were staying, and was aghast at that candidate.
He was NOT someone I would have supported, ever. Particularly his stance on the 2nd Amendment. It was astonishing, the gulf between the visual impression and the facts of the candidacy.
That was the first time I had ever heard of Jared Golden.
And it was the first time I ever heard the term “Ranked Choice Voting”.
When I looked it up, it was clear that Ranked Choice Voting was a Leftist construction to slant elections in their direction.
That has been confirmed for me when I hear it being advocated for by Leftists all over the country.
“That has been confirmed for me when I hear it being advocated for by Leftists all over the country”.
Same here, when I saw who was supporting RCV in Maine, I knew it was a ploy by hard core leftists to hurt Republicans and conservatives. The Maine Republican party did absolutely nothing to oppose RCV.