Posted on 11/09/2022 9:24:30 AM PST by Red Badger
I was wrong, Begich apparently helped split the Republican vote.
It didn’t help that the senate Republican money was behind LISA.
Mitch the bitch needs to go.
Nevada is voting to switch to “ranked choice voting”.
BIG MISTAKE, IMO.
To be hired, or elected, you have to be likeable. I watched the Alaska debate. Palin looked stern, talked like an angry robot, and just wasn't likeable.
I don't disagree with what you wrote, but here's the problem:
The GOP can't limit the primary to one candidate, and the process of RCV takes the top 4 into the general election. That means that it's possible for two or more candidates from the same party to promote to the general election.
The dilemma then becomes which candidate would the national GOP (Ronna McDaniel [Romney]) ask to step down? Does she ask Palin, who has baggage but who twice ran successfully statewide for Governor, was a mayor, and was an Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commissioner, or Nick Begich, Jr., who is a so-called "outsider" who hasn't run for anything before?
And then how does McDaniel handle the ego factor, the feeling in each candidate that they have what it takes to win?
Personally, I think the party should have asked Begich to step aside, tell him it's not his time yet, tell him that he has to do the retail politics first, like Palin did, and that when he's ready to make the leap to statewide office the party will be behind him. They didn't do that, and that's on the national party.
But that's why they're called the Stupid Party.
-PJ
Mitch McConnell and Tim Scott endorsed Murkowski.
Scott said she was the only one who could win.
And, the beat goes on.....
two republicans on the ballot https://alaskapublic.org/2022/11/09/alaska-election-results-live/
Palin needed to decide between politics and reality tv starring Kate Gosselin, which was a joke. Her very public family was and is a train wreck. Truthfully, I always felt Sarah Palin was not qualified, except for a few clever quips, she didn’t have much depth.
If your first choice was the democrat Chesbro, she came in a distant third; but your vote does not just disappear; in the next round it goes to your second choice, and that in all likelihood will be the rino Murkowski. So Murkowski will gain a democrat vote. Not likely that any Chesbro voters will have Tshibaka as their second place choice.
So the 20,000 Chesbro voters can screw Tshibaka even though they didn’t want Murkowski either. Tshibaka needs a greater than 20,000 vote edge over Murkowski in the second round of voting, or Murkowski wins.
I think.
Biden could nominate a babbling left wing idiot and Lindsay Graham would vote for her. Oh wait, that’s what just happened last Fall.
You should have read about her tenure as not only governor but as head of Alaska’s powerful Oil and Gas Commission. You would have a more informed opinion.
Ranked voting is really no different than Georgia run-off format, it just doing the run off at the same time. If they had ranked voting in GA yesterday, and the libertarians listed Walker as their second choice, Walker would have won without the need for another run off in a month.
That’s quite possible and if true she needed to build on her political talents instead of resigning, She needed to get control of her family drama.
This assumes a D voter would even select an R as a second choice. It’s not mandatory to do so. Remember how polarized the country is and many D’s would never ever vote for an R.
Has any conservative won a ‘ranked choice’ vote? Serious question.
Not that I know of..................
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