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Lisa Murkowski is losing… But with Ranked Choice voting, who knows…
Citizen's Free Press ^ | November 9, 2022 11:59 am | Posted by Kane

Posted on 11/09/2022 9:24:30 AM PST by Red Badger

Kelly Tshibaka is leading but it will take days to know the winner.

Kelly Tshibaka (R) has the most votes for Senator in Alaska, BUT she may still lose to RINO Murkowski due to the bizarre and undemocratic voting scheme they currently use there. It is a system that can be strongly manipulated. No Finals until Nov 23rd. Alaskans need to change it!

“Preliminary results in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race show... Murkowski narrowly trailing her Trump-endorsed GOP challenger, Kelly Tshibaka, but the state’s new system of ranked-choice voting could still give Murkowski the edge in the final count.”


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To: gibsonguy

I was wrong, Begich apparently helped split the Republican vote.


41 posted on 11/09/2022 10:36:27 AM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins (A)
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To: Red Badger

It didn’t help that the senate Republican money was behind LISA.

Mitch the bitch needs to go.


42 posted on 11/09/2022 10:50:22 AM PST by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: Red Badger

Nevada is voting to switch to “ranked choice voting”.

BIG MISTAKE, IMO.


43 posted on 11/09/2022 10:59:02 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
How is it that someone who was deemed qualified to be Alaska’s governor is now considered ineligible to be a rep?

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.

44 posted on 11/09/2022 11:36:05 AM PST by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: PermaRag
but the GOP allowing 2 candidates onto the ballot is certainly not helpful, as these 2022 House elections have demonstrated.

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

45 posted on 11/09/2022 11:40:31 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Red Badger

Mitch McConnell and Tim Scott endorsed Murkowski.

Scott said she was the only one who could win.

And, the beat goes on.....


46 posted on 11/09/2022 11:51:01 AM PST by BrexitBen
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
How is it that someone who was deemed qualified to be Alaska’s governor is now considered ineligible to be a rep?

two republicans on the ballot https://alaskapublic.org/2022/11/09/alaska-election-results-live/

47 posted on 11/09/2022 11:58:07 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: NohSpinZone

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.


48 posted on 11/09/2022 12:12:00 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Red Badger

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.


49 posted on 11/09/2022 12:15:25 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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To: wiseprince

Biden could nominate a babbling left wing idiot and Lindsay Graham would vote for her. Oh wait, that’s what just happened last Fall.


50 posted on 11/09/2022 12:17:14 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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To: Toespi

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.


51 posted on 11/09/2022 12:20:36 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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To: hinckley buzzard

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.


52 posted on 11/09/2022 12:23:40 PM PST by Truthsearcher
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To: hinckley buzzard

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.


53 posted on 11/09/2022 12:32:02 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Red Badger

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.


54 posted on 11/09/2022 12:35:00 PM PST by Tuxedo (Duck and cover)
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To: Red Badger

Has any conservative won a ‘ranked choice’ vote? Serious question.


56 posted on 11/09/2022 12:42:30 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma

Not that I know of..................


57 posted on 11/09/2022 12:43:37 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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