Posted on 11/03/2020 11:00:06 PM PST by Zhang Fei
An Emerson College poll conducted between October 29 and 31 showed Gideon with a 48 percent to 42 percent lead over Collins, and 61 percent of supporters of both Savage and independent Max Linn, polling at 5 percent and 1 percent, respectively, would back Gideon on their second choice.
Collins entered the Senate in 1997 as one of Maine’s two independently minded Republican women senators alongside Olympia Snowe. The junior senator survived in the New England state as a politically savvy member of the GOP in a liberalizing region by touting her independence and reasonableness, but the tension between her party and constituents met its match in her support of President Donald Trump.
Gideon’s run focused as much on portraying Collins as out of touch with Mainers as it did on health care and a higher minimum wage. The incumbent’s vote for Trump Supreme Court nominees Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and Amy Coney Barrett last week was a decisive moment in her career, allowing Gideon to paint Collins as more beholden to the president than her constituents.
“Lisa Savage is absolutely right,” said Kat Calvin, founder and executive director of Spread the Vote. “Ranked-choice voting is actually something that a lot of us want.”
Collins recognized the danger the runoff system presented to her candidacy early on, telling the New York Times on Sunday that she was fighting for a clear majority on Election Day to head off any chance of second choices being a factor in the race.
“My goal is to get 50 percent on Election Day, and ranked-choice voting would not come into play,” said Collins. “So that’s what I hope.”
The Maine system was put in place partly in response to former Republican Gov. Paul LePage winning the governorship twice without a majority. He took advantage
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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.
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?
Well the last 12 hours have been crazy...
Collins holding her seat, and generally GOP holding Senate is a brighter spot.
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.
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.
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.
[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.]
Holding on to the Senate is the only thing that kept me from completely going off the edge today.
[Holding on to the Senate is the only thing that kept me from completely going off the edge today.]
Ross Perot runs, we get Clinton, twice, AFAICR.
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:
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