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Today is the first time (from what I just read, but not sure that's accurate) that ranked-choice voting is being used in a congressional race. I'll be very interested to see the outcome.
It is in Alaska, where the Dim Bulb (Sarah Palin) is attempting her political comeback. She is in a 3-way special election for the state's one US House seat which was vacated when Rep. Don Young passed away earlier this year. The other candidates are a Trump-endorsed Republican and a Dem. state legislator.
There was a 4th person who emerged in a distant 4th from the primary in June, but he has dropped out.
Any election Sarah Palin is in is a special election.
Sarah Palin is not a fan of ranked choice voting, as it turns out. The Democrat, Mary Peltola, is in the lead, leaving the Quitter to battle it out with another right wing Republican.
NPR notes that this election is also the first ranked choice primary, so Lisa Murkowski has a fair chance to come out on top, in spite of the Trumpers being out to get her for her impeachment vote. It will be interesting!
Polling seems to indicate that everyone's favorite snowbilly will not be getting a chance to serve a half-term in the House of Reps. That would be grand indeed.
Actually the first time it was used in a congressional election was in 2018 in Maine. The incumbent Republican, Bruce Poliquin, ended up losing and filed a federal lawsuit seeking to have ranked choice voting declared unconstitutional. He lost the lawsuit…and the congressional race. Rep. Jared Golden is the first member of congress to win election as a result of ranked choice voting.
Poliquin would have gotten just as far flailing his hands in the air while screaming, "STOP THE STEAL" and sending Rudy off on a fact-finding mission to find stuffed ballots in Presque Isle, rather than spend $$$ on frivolous litigation.
Thank you!
I thought Maine was already using ranked-choice.
Alaska and Maine use ranked choice regularly in all races, so it's not new to them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States
It’s new in Alaska this year I believe.
You are correct, PR. The first stories I saw about it didn't mention that it was their first election with it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/us/politics/alaska-open-primary-ranked-choice.html
Trump doesn't read, and never paid attention to security briefings… So how would he know which top-secret documents to steal?
Obviously, someone was directed to remove certain boxes of top-secret material.
Then (questions from the Internet):
Whatever Putin wanted or needed, Trump would try to provide. Beginning with sharing classified info in early 2017, in the Oval Office, with the Russian ambassador to the US. Foreign minister Lavrov also was there.
Let's not forget: Trump was probably told exactly what Putin wanted during the several meetings Trump had with Putin without any US officials in the room.
The latest speculation (from Fox Noise, no less), is that the informant was one of Trump's own secret service detail.
They would know exactly what was placed exactly where in Mar a Lago, and have a good idea as to why.
Forgiveness. What a concept.
Not much of that flowing around the Mesa County GOP, lately.
Tina ( Fuck, you.. I'm not resigning) Peters is now fully engaged in dismembering the party.
The faster she finishes the job, the better. We need a return of the rational business Republicans.
Those wanting to defend the police ought to be warming up:
You may remember:
When he was charged, the story shifted a bit:
And of course, in Mayor Hancock’s Denver:
Ruh Roh. Faux Noise is turning against the Mango Madman.
Where Ingraham goes, Hannity follows. But I still believe that Tucker Carlson, like Josef Goebbels, will stay in the bunker with der Fuhrer to the bitter end.
With the same bitter results, please?
Has Moderatus weighed in since the execution of the search warrant and the assertion of the Fifth Amendment privilege last week?
I would expect nothing less than to hear him tell us to choke on our big, fat nothing-burger.
Never Trumper George Conway recounts Trump's infinite playlist:
Ouch (written by Peter Navarro so it may or may not have a bent)
The Clown Prince of Pennsylvania Avenue
“beautifully orchestrated Steve Bannon masterpiece in 2016……..”
Says all that anyone needs to know about Peter Navarro, if one didn’t already know Navarro was playing solitaire with a deck of 51.
(line courtesy of “Flowers on the Wall,” classic 1965 song by the Statler Brothers)
Now I have that song in my head and it won’t go away!!
First 6% is in from WY and Liz is down by 17 points. Not looking good. Almost all those votes are from Casper. I know nothing about the political landscape, so I don’t know if there are more or less Trumpster areas or not.
Update: Cnn just called it. Curretnly sitting at 65%-30% against Liz
270 to Win published the race as already decided:for Hageman
Wyoming At-large Republican Primary
So Wyoming just voted to put another useless flapdoodle like Boebert in Congress instead of a rational conservative. Just when you think the GOP can't get any lower, they dig a new bottom.
Actually, Harriet Hageman isn't a moron like Bimbobert. In some ways, she is more danger because she is relatively well-educated and apparently thinks before she speaks. She saw an opportunity and jumped at it.
Hageman is more like Ken Buck or Barbara Kirkmeyer than Bimbobert.
I stayed up for Alaska election results, not realizing until nearly midnight that Alaska does not count their mail or early voting ballots until 7 days AFTER the election. How absurd!
The only thing counted on election night is in-person voting on election day. So when I went to bed it was still zeros across the board.