Peltola beats Palin, first time in 50 years Alaska has a Democratic rep
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Anonymous
| "Caribou Barbie"? Wow. |
Anonymous
| I'm delighted but Peltola has to continue campaigning. This was a special election to fill out the last four months of dead Republican Don Young's seat. She will run again in November. She beat Palin by three points even though the national news gave all the attention to Palin. I never heard Peltola's name uttered until last night. She is the first Alaskan Native to hold federal office. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, wonder how 2 months from now will shape up |
Anonymous
| Won’t Palin just run again in November and beat her? |
Anonymous
why would she beat her in Nov when she couldn't beat her yesterday? |
Anonymous
As soon as she starts voting with Nancy Pelosi she’ll be doomed. |
Anonymous
From “fxck your feelings” to being shocked! over a mild dig like that? |
Anonymous
Anonymous
Seriously, I have teenagers older than that jab. |
Anonymous
| So how do Republicans pick a candidate for November? Is Palin the default choice? Or do they have another primary? Smoke filled room? |
Anonymous
They already had a top four primary for the November election the same day as the special election. Peltola, Palin and Begich (who is a Republican but the grandson of Alaska’s last D House member) will all be on the ballot again along with one other minor Republican. |
Anonymous
So will the November election be plurality wins, or ranked choice again? |
Anonymous
| Is Peltola again on the ballot in November? |
Anonymous
Ranked choice voting works like this: Instead of voting for one single candidate, you literally rank your choices. Instead of voting for a single candidate you put them in order of preference. First they count up the "Choice #1" votes, and if one candidate has a majority they win. If no candidate has a majority, the candidate with the least amount of "choice #1" votes is eliminated, and the people who voted #1 for them now are voting for their #2. This process repeats until somebody has a majority. So say the ballot has Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and Hitler on it. You really want Bernie to win, but you know he probably doesn't have the votes to make it and you don't want to "throw your vote away" and potentially help Trump win. With regular voting, you vote for Biden, obviously. With ranked choice voting, you rank Bernie #1, Biden #2, Trump #3 and Hitler #4. The first round of votes is counted. There are 100 voters and the #1 choices look like this: Biden: 26 Bernie: 25 Trump: 40 Hitler: 9 Nobody got a majority, so Hitler is eliminated. All of Hitler's voters put Trump as their #2, so the votes are counted again. The new totals are: Biden: 26 Bernie: 25 Trump: 40 #1s + 9 #2s from Hitler voters = 49 Still nobody has a majority, so Bernie is eliminated. All of Bernie's voters put Biden as their #2, so the votes are recounted and the new totals are: Biden: 26 #1s + 25 #2s from Bernie voters = 51 Trump: 40 #1s + 9 #2s from Hitler voters = 49 Now Biden has a majority so he wins. The advantage of this system is that you're practically never "throwing away your vote" by voting for who you want to win regardless of their chances of winning. Even if your guy loses you still get to transfer your vote to your second favorite. |