Palin gets another swing at Peltola and her leftist agenda in November, and if the greenie-agenda pain is strong enough, and the Bidenflation high enough, there should be flip-back, same as happened in Massachusetts. Alaska is a pretty libertarian state in orientation, and there are a lot of libertarians who are liberal on abortion, which is what was said to have driven the Democrats. But inflation in general tops that as an issue for voters according to most polls, particularly with the Democrats’ extended incompetence on the matter.
Also, this strange rigged election is hardly about to be repeated in the rest of the country, since only a few places now have ranked-choice voting. It’s likely Democrats are going to go big on this form of rigging, given the successes they’ve had with it, but their wish list for it not going to be in place by November 2022. That means the red-wave trend is very likely still in place.
I think she (Palin) wins in the general.
Plenty of RINO crowing around here, too.
Trump will need a Congress that will work with him. With Begich gone, we’ll see in November how suicidal Alaskans are.
Rigged Choice Voting
For one thing - WE DEMAND THAT THE VOTES BE TALLIED A QUICKLY. No more endless days of them finding votes for the D.
Begich never should have run in the first place. All he did was to split the Republican vote.
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 allows the RATs to field fake-R candidates to gum up the works and enable RAT victories.
RCV will therefore always benefit the Deep State. And thats without even taking into account the added capacity for fraud.
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.
Ranked Choice is awful, no matter how the pig is dressed.
Rs could have prevented it, but didn’t.
Idiots.
Maybe this will shake up enough wishy washy Alaska Republicans to make a change in November.
You might not like Palin but do you really want a democrat as your representative in Washington ???
Those in the “GOP” who’ve dominated Alaska over the years are pretty much all inbred members of what a much younger Palin then called, IIRC, “the corrupt bastards club.” Murky is the daughter of one of the more prominent ones. The Democrats play along as willing participants in the AK uniparty, as illustrated by Begich’s grandfather. Palin managed to break thru and win in spite of them, albeit not on her first attempt. They’ve been out to nail her since. Which her unconventional family life made easy. Murky’s write in win and having an independent win as governor were just earlier rounds of the CBC being unwilling to give up their power and money to real republicans. Ranked choice voting was put in to keep Murky in office, but using it to torpedo Palin was a plus to them. The alleged GOP to democratic first round vote totals were roughly 60:40 favoring candidates listed as GOP. But whereas you’d think the 2nd choices for lower ranked GOP entrants would be for some other GOP candidates, they weren’t all that. 20% of Begich 1st choice voters listed no one as second choice. So when he didn’t win outright their votes no longer count. A bigger chuck of Begich first voters actually listed the Democrat ahead of Palin for as their 2nd choice.
Another stolen election
Is it the leftists that caused Palin to lose? Or the Republicans who chose her as their number three choice over Begich? And if it’s the later then will Begich be running again in November?