Posted on 09/01/2022 7:25:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Well, the left has got one. On Twitter and beyond, you've never heard such crowing.
According to Politico:
Democrat Mary Peltola has defeated Republican Sarah Palin in the special election for Alaska's vacant House seat, a big upset over the former governor in the state's first election under ranked-choice voting.
Peltola, a former state legislator who will become Alaska's first indigenous member of Congress, defeated a special election field that included Palin and another Republican, Nick Begich III. The Democrat finished first in the initial tally and then won enough second-choice votes from Begich's supporters to see off Palin, who had former President Donald Trump's endorsement and previously won a statewide campaign in 2006.
That 60% of the state could vote for a Republican, yet the seat should nevertheless go to a Democrat, is bitter news indeed for the Republicans. Ranked-choice voting, which in Alaska was introduced in this election, where the voters whose candidate is eliminated get to vote a second time, through their second choices, pretty well left enough holes for the Democrats to walk away with the seat.
It's doubly sad because Sarah Palin had been the frontrunner and was attempting to make a political comeback. Palin had been unjustly hounded from office as governor in 2009, following her stint as John McCain's running mate in 2008, attracting grotesque amounts of demonizing attention from the left, as well as from sleazy McCain staffers leaking from inside the campaign. Her detractors painted Palin as a hick and spread lies about her as corrupt, ignorant, and phony. It was a demonization that could only be compared to what they later did to Donald Trump, which is to say, Palin was the proto-Trump. Had she won, it would have been poetic justice.
Instead, we got this:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
From here on out, every election from Alaska to Florida, Republican candidates must place their unyielding Pro-Life credentials top and center of their platforms, speeches and advertising.
Take Alaska, perfect example, the people are Pro-Life but abortion remains legal in the state and Republicans in Juneau and even those is DC have done nothing to make abortion illegal.
This election should serve as an example that all Republicans must put ending abortion at front and center or their campaigns.
Ranked choice voting for Federal offices is unconstitutional. It dilutes the vote of committed single candidate voters and gives voters for fringe candidates more than one vote. This was pushed in Alaska by Murkowski supporters who simply wanted to disrupt the movement away from her towards Trump supporters like Palin. It is just another scheme to undermine one-man-one-vote and the 14th amendment equal protection under the law.
Ranked choice voting allows the RATs to field fake-R candidates to gum up the works and enable RAT victories.
Ok...but for most people, gas prices are down so they feel like inflation will follow. For those of you that think abortion will not impact these midterms...i’ve got news for you!
I read an article a few months before the election that highlighted the bad blood and viscous rhetoric that was going on between Palin and the other republican running.
When i realized they had this rank choice voting it became apparent this could and most likely was going to happen.
You just can’t have that level of animosity and think it wont effect people. We just witnessed the result.
Sure enough many republicans second choice/rank wasn’t the other republican and here we are….
That would backfire in an epic way. Not sure why the supreme court decided to do what they did in an election year. People vote for Republicans for fiscal and anti-woke reasons, not their pro-life stance. In fact, polls have shown that moderates do not like the way conservatives mix religion and politics. If you think God is on “our side”, you should read your bible more...because we are SUPPOSED to have a one world government before the rapture! The other side is supposed to win. Take the religion out of politics please!
But there is always a risk that if a candidate who is perceived by some voters as too far left or too far right wins their party's nomination, those voters will either for the other side, or just not vote all.
The Begich family in Alaska have been Democrats for generations. Nick Begich went in as a Republican to purposefully drain votes from Palin. Mission accomplished.
I am not going to take the religious belief that murder is wrong out of my politics. What a suggestion.
And there is a positive pro life increment, statistically validated, look it up.
No...there is not. Poll after poll shows major support for legal abortion across all party lines and the election results we have seen back that up (even in red KS). Late term abortion bans are fine if you want to push that, but it’s a losing issue. Every state is going to legalize it anyway except for maybe LA, MS or AL (and they will eventually given the right political climate). Just drop it so we can win elections!
RCV will therefore always benefit the Deep State. And thats without even taking into account the added capacity for fraud.
He does come from a “prominent democrat family”, so there is that.
Certainly at the Presidential level, there isn't even a requirement that voters participate at all. It would be entirely constitutional for a state to decide that its presidential electors will be determined by the state legislature.
‘I am not going to take the religious belief that murder is wrong out of my politics.’
the opinion that abortion is murder is not limited to the religious; I am not a theist, and I consider abortion for convenience to be murder in the first degee...
Notice the same people who support ranked voting hate the electoral college which protects federalism. They are always looking for the ballot box advantage from ranked voting to the national popular vote compact to California’s reform eliminating partisan primaries and advancing the top two vote getters. You get the Democrat’s choice and an echo, not diverse viewpoints about the direction of the state.
Can God bless an America hell bent on the slaughter of innocents?
God isn’t going to bless anyone. He’s not going to “save” the republican party during the midterms. We will win only with hard work! The other side is supposed to win according to the bible...we are supposed to have a one world government, let that sink in!
Ranked Choice is awful, no matter how the pig is dressed.
Rs could have prevented it, but didn’t.
Idiots.
“Ranked choice” is so much easier than vote manipulation and fraud. Democrat/Communists will come up with something fresh in no time to “win” elections.
It’s a losing issue! Young women who might have crossed the aisle to vote for us this year (college loans, woke teachers, fiscal issues...myriad of reasons why) are not going to now! Also when the Dems say that Republicans will “take away” this and that...people will believe them now because the SC took away legalized abortion. Lastly, states are legalizing it left and right...it will not put even a small dent in the number of abortions performed. There are many people that should not be reproducing anyways!
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