Peltola beats Palin, first time in 50 years Alaska has a Democratic rep

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Anonymous wrote:It’s important to know that in Alaska the Native corporations have significant political heft. That’s part of the reason Don Young lasted for a million years. He had a Native wife and had deep appreciating and understanding for the trivial self-governance system so always had their support.

Murkowski also has large Alaskan Native support. This result bodes well for her.

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FYI - voting is a scam, per Republicans. Just let the elites handle everything.

Hmmm... I don't suppose there has ever been a time in our history when the person getting fewer votes actually won???

We don’t vote by party in the US. If you want that, move to the UK or another country with a parliamentary system.

Peltola got the most votes. Just like Eric Adams in NYC. Deal with it.

I was talking about 2016. How soon Cotton forgets!

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Republicans in disarray

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Anonymous wrote:"Caribou Barbie"? Wow.

From “fxck your feelings” to being shocked! over a mild dig like that?

I think there was something about "liberal tears" in there.

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Anonymous wrote:Republicans in disarray

I love watching them be crybabies

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I'm not going to offer advice to Republicans on how to win elections, not yet -- but that would probably be a helpful thread in the near future.

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Jungle primaries are really tough for the GOP because there is a lot of money propping up fringe candidates who are consistently trying to run from the far right. The same really doesn’t exist for the Democrats and candidates from the far-left. And if there are weird far left candidates, they are likely to be rightwing billionaire-funded spoiler candidates.

We need to get dark money out of politics.

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Anonymous wrote:Jungle primaries are really tough for the GOP because there is a lot of money propping up fringe candidates who are consistently trying to run from the far right. The same really doesn’t exist for the Democrats and candidates from the far-left. And if there are weird far left candidates, they are likely to be rightwing billionaire-funded spoiler candidates.

We need to get dark money out of politics.

So - I proposed this before and no one was really interested, but here I'll try again: Watching Palin and Begich cannibalize each other's votes, leaving open the path for a third candidate to take the win, do we see any possible parallel here if Trump and DeSantis are both in the R primary in 2024? Doesn't it seem possible that they each cull from the same group of voters - and there's room for some third candidate to end up with more than either of them individually?

I don't know who that third candidate is, and I know primaries are different from generals, and I know ranked choice is different from winner takes all. But it still seems like there could be something similar here. Am I wrong? My spouse thinks so - he thinks if Trump is in the race, it's definitely Trump, and no one else will get enough votes to affect that.

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Anonymous wrote:Jungle primaries are really tough for the GOP because there is a lot of money propping up fringe candidates who are consistently trying to run from the far right. The same really doesn’t exist for the Democrats and candidates from the far-left. And if there are weird far left candidates, they are likely to be rightwing billionaire-funded spoiler candidates.

We need to get dark money out of politics.

So - I proposed this before and no one was really interested, but here I'll try again: Watching Palin and Begich cannibalize each other's votes, leaving open the path for a third candidate to take the win, do we see any possible parallel here if Trump and DeSantis are both in the R primary in 2024? Doesn't it seem possible that they each cull from the same group of voters - and there's room for some third candidate to end up with more than either of them individually?

I don't know who that third candidate is, and I know primaries are different from generals, and I know ranked choice is different from winner takes all. But it still seems like there could be something similar here. Am I wrong? My spouse thinks so - he thinks if Trump is in the race, it's definitely Trump, and no one else will get enough votes to affect that.

Trump is too popular among GOP voters. Still has approval ratings in the 90% range. He will suck up all the oxygen.

The issue with Palin and Begich is that neither has approval ratings as high as 90% among AK GOP voters. Two mediocre candidates that inspire little passion - not a winning combo. My prediction is that in the future the AK GOP will host a closed nominating convention and party elites will handpick a candidate, promising that candidate all the party money through the 2 rounds of voting.

Always expect the GOP to become less democratic.