Replies

With ranked choice, Walker might have won. Libertarians would have been more likely to have Walker than Warnock as second choice, so on second count Walker might have squaked over 50% with the Libertarian votes reassigned.

There is no reason to think ranked choice hurt Republicans in general. Alaska is an anomaly.

I’m not sure why so many think that a libertarian would vote for a Republican. Almost to the person, the libertarians that I’ve met are more Center-Left than anything else.

As Alaska, I’ll have to disagree with it being an anomaly. The Democrats in Alaska elected Murkowski. Alaska has a Senator and House member, neither of which getting a majority.

Georgia Libertarians:

 US Senate     US Senate    GA Governor
  2022	        2020           2022
Chase Oliver  Shane Hazel   Shane Hazel
    81,353      115,039       28,162

Amazing how former Marine Shane Hazel was able to force David Perdue into a run-off in 2020 - but he couldn't get anyone to vote for him a scant two years later.

MEANWHILE, the LGBTQ poofter Libertarian Chase Oliver suddenly gained a huge following - forcing Herschel Walker into a run-off in 2022...

Methinks that a bunch of Perdue and Walker votes got "adjudicated" into Libertarian "votes".

Heck, Kemp probably peeled a bunch off Shane Hazel in the governor's race.

Nice to have the inside track on the machines, like former SOS Kemp and current SOS Rattenspewer both do.

"With ranked choice, Walker might have won. Libertarians would have been more likely to have Walker than Warnock as second choice, so on second count Walker might have squaked over 50% with the Libertarian votes reassigned.

There is no reason to think ranked choice hurt Republicans in general. Alaska is an anomaly."

Totally false.

Liberals adore Rigged Choice Voting and will try to implement it especially in (but not limited to) as many supposedly Republican-leaning states as possible. If implemented, it will seal the deal for the loony left in Georgia and Nevada and will give Democrats their only possible chance of success in Utah (like it did in Alaska).

Read this, posted many months ago even BEFORE Alaska's so-called anomaly came true as the author of the article predicted:

Rigged Choice Voting in Alaska

It's no "anomaly", it's exactly what liberal of BOTH parties want to see -- conservative candidates completely marginalized in nearly all states and districts.

Libertarians would have been more likely to have Walker than Warnock as second choice, so on second count Walker might have squaked over 50% with the Libertarian votes reassigned.

You might be surprised. "Libertarian voters" aren't always "libertarian." They may just be signalling their dislike for both parties, sometimes with the Republicans more than with the Democrats.

There is no reason to think ranked choice hurt Republicans in general. Alaska is an anomaly.

Maine as well? A Republican lost reelection because of the progressive independent or third party candidates. I suppose you might be right in a solidly Republican state but there aren't so many of them left. What Maine and Alaska have in common are "Independent" senators who can count on winning second place votes from those who vote for one of the two major parties.

Ranked choice voting is a bit of a scam. The complicated counting process makes more opportunities for fraud, and the fact that many voters don't want to bother with second, third, and fourth choices are other problems.