Decepticon Senator Lisa Murkowski is the primary target and reason for President Trump’s travel to Alaska for a rally. Murkowski, a leftist in the Republican ranks, must be removed if progress in taking down the UniParty is to continue. President Trump is rallying in support of Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy, Senate candidate challenging Murkowski, Kelly Tshibaka, and candidate for congress Sarah Palin.
The anticipated start time for President Trump’s remarks is 4:00pm in Anchorage Alaska or 8:00pm ET. Rumble livestream links below:
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If Trump can tell people who to vote for, then for ranked-choice voting he should be able to tell the people exactly how to fill in their ballots. That ranked-choice thing is not entirely intuitive and if people don’t vote in a bloc to some degree they can end up electing the worst person.
IMO for best success MAGA voters need to agree to vote for the same people for #1, #2, #3, and #4. #1 should of course be Tshibaka. #2-#4 should be the same people in the same order on all of the MAGA ballots and Murkowski should not be one of the names! This will help to ensure that Tshibaka is in the top 4 heading into the general and Murkowski is knocked out. I think Trump should just tell them exactly how to vote.
One way things can get complicated is if anti-Trump Dems and RINOs choose Murkowski as #1. That’s why MAGA voters need to be a bloc and vote consistently.
Sorry, this is long, but I posted this on Jul 13 and it shows how random voting can cause Palin to lose the primary.
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Palin and Begich are R’s, Gross is I siding with D’s, and Peltola is D. Ideally conservatives would agree in advance to vote identically, and since Palin is the clear primary winner it would make sense for everyone to rank her #1. Second best strategy is for the Palin voters to rank Begich #2 and the Begich voters to rank Palin #2, so when one of them is knocked out the votes go to the other. Compare this scenario (Scenario 1) to one where Begich voters rank Palin #4 instead of #2 (Scenario 2). I used 100 voters and the same proportionate #s of votes as the primary results.
Scenario 1:
38 vote Palin Begich Gross Peltola
27 vote Begich Palin Gross Peltola
20 vote Gross Peltola Begich Palin
15 vote Peltola Gross Begich Palin
Peltola is out. Of the people who ranked Peltola #1, their votes go to their second choice, Gross.
38 vote Palin Begich Gross Peltola
27 vote Begich Palin Gross Peltola
35 vote Peltola Gross Begich Palin
Begich is out. Of the people who ranked Begich #1, their votes go to to their second choice, Palin.
65 vote Palin Begich Peltola Gross
35 vote Peltola Gross Begich Palin
*** Palin wins ***
Scenario 2:
38 vote Palin Begich Peltola Gross
27 vote Begich Gross Peltola Palin <– notice change in #2 rank here
20 vote Gross Peltola Begich Palin
15 vote Peltola Gross Begich Palin
Peltola is out. Of the people who ranked Peltola #1, their votes go to their second choice, Gross.
38 vote Palin Begich Peltola Gross
27 vote Begich Gross Peltola Palin
35 vote Gross Peltola Begich Palin
Begich is out. Of the people who ranked Begich #1, their votes go to to their second choice, Gross.
38 vote Palin Begich Peltola Gross
62 vote Gross Peltola Begich Palin
*** Gross wins ***
This is why I say voters need to have a plan and they need to be educated about voting so that they vote strategically to win elections. No more emotional voting. If the Begich or Palin voters are emotional and don’t rank the other candidate #2, they can easily lose that seat!
The above scenarios are for the special election, not the primary for that election (the primary was held already). But I think you get my drift. People in ranked-choice states need to understand exactly what they are doing and vote strategically. There is a significant portion of the population who will vote for the anti-Trump R just to screw with us Ultra MAGAs. Don’t let them do it. Plan in advance.
And please note in Scenario 2 that non-strategic voting can not only ensure a loss for Palin, it can ensure that a Dem wins the seat!! The voters cannot allow that to happen! It’s R right now and we have to gain seats in the House, not lose them.
I’m worried.
Want to know the truth of Ranked Choice Voting?
( Probably not )
Go to
” Ranked Choice Voting is a bad choice ”
It is from the Heritage foundation and it is absolutely clear and well supported with examples from real Elections.
HTF did Alaska fall for this ranked choice BS???
I know. It’s awful. And it’s brand new so people aren’t used to it.
Proud? You should be ashamed of yourself. One finger salute to you.
We won loser, so try to lose gracefully.
The voters of Alaska were no doubt swayed by slick ads telling them how much better non-partisan primaries and ranked-choice voting is … but I’ll bet 99% of the people who voted for it couldn’t explain how it works.
Non-partisan primaries and ranked-choice voting are too easy for malicious people to engineer. Those people aren’t going to vote for their favorites, they’re going to vote in such a way that the strongest person is knocked out. That is completely contrary to the spirit of these voting schemes. I’ll bet the slick ads didn’t mention anything about this.
You sound like the RINO Delcollo, who pretended to be MAGA from the state of Delaware. He was proud that he voted to take Delaware’s electoral votes from the winner of the state and give them to the winner of “most popular vote”. He was not elected a second term.
“ You sound like the RINO Delcollo…”
You have demonstrated your ignorance.
I circulated an Initiative and Referendum petition promoting Instant Tunoff Voting when I was the Election Committee chairman for the Alaska Libertarian party.
We lost that time but won round #2.
The communist democrat politicians and judges sold it on eliminating dark out of state money which paid to Get the 25 pg initiative on the ballot
The 25 page initiative: res ipsa loquitur!
Must be one of those communist demcraps!
Well, it was pushed.
Even Mike Pocaro bit on it.
It sounded good in theory…
But in practice, well, it has too many drawbacks.
Since it was adopted, many now recognize the problems with it.
The backlash has began.
Sounds like a mission for Sarah and Kelly to spearhead, and, yes, PDJT to champion.
Let those closest devise the strategy then blast it out Trump style.
The primary is top 4 and the general is ranked choice.
The primary for the special election for the House seat already occurred and the general is on Aug 16. It will be ranked choice. My scenarios above apply. Voters MUST vote Palin and Begich in positions #1 and #2 in order to best ensure that the seat remains with the GOP.
The primaries for the regular elections for the House and Senate seats is on Aug 16. It’s top 4, not ranked-choice.
The general for the regular election for the House and Senate seats is in November and it’s ranked-choice. So depending on who makes it into the top 4 for the primaries there will be ranked-choice strategies and it’s important to convey them to Alaska voters.
Sorry for all of the comments about this but I am seriously worried that we’re going to lose those seats to Dems or Murkowski will be re-elected.
Gross dropped out, so it’s only 3 candidates now. I’m voting Palin and nobody else. Begich will only win as a #2. Idk why any conservative would put Peltoa in.
Make sure you rank Begich #2. Every conservative needs to make Palin and Begich #1 and #2 in their preferred order. See the example above with the scenarios, if the Begich people rank Palin lower than #2 (or the Palin people rank Begich lower than #2) the GOP can actually lose the seat to a Dem!
I can’t put any faith in the Begich Dynasty.
They say anything you want to hear.
And they know what you want to hear.
Nope.
Ranked choice robs both ends and pays the middle.
If I want Kelly, I shall rank her #1, #2,#3 and so on.
Say there were three running for a seat.
Your favorite, somebody Bearable and somebody you didn’t like .
You’d rank your favorite #1
Bearable #2
But you wouldn’t vote for the bad one.
The other side likes the bad one as #1
The Bearable one as #2
But they won’t go to your favorite.
So nobody takes 50% for the hard win.
Your favorite gets 45%
Bearable just gets 10%
Bad gets 45%.
Guess who wins.
In Ranked choice, in the second ranking, Bearable gets votes from both ends.
For the win.
And that is how it works.
How much is Murkowski paying you?
Why do you debase yourself like that?
Christian, look at my comment with the two scenarios. Look at scenario #2. The person who got the 3rd fewest votes (ranked #1) ends up being the winner. How fair is that?
It all depends on how people do the ranking. If people aren’t educated in the ranked-choice process, they will easily screw up. And look what happens in scenario #2, not only does a far less popular person win the seat, the seat switches from R to D! Do you not care? Are you even an conservative? Did you think this stuff through before you promoted this process?
I am sure he thought it through, no he is not a Republican, I daresay he is not even American with this ruse disguised as an voter process. BULLSHIT. More and More BULLSHIT.
That doesn’t sound like consensus to me. I think it’s just that most people are equally miserable, because most people have to see their preferred candidate lose out to a less popular one.
Been told ranking Kelly 1, 2, 3, will eliminate the ballot entirely.
I don’t read it that way on the site, but sure way is only give them your 1st ranking, and they hold that all through.
It’s not mentioned in the FAQ. But there is a video you can play, where they tell you that it’s not allowed.
Well, if everybody plays the little game,
The rank their favorite #1, The acceptable #2 and don’t rank beyond that.
Both parties see #2 as being the acceptable.
The votes merge there.
Ranked choice completely destroys your first choice.
Disregard previous.
I studied it at the Alaska Elections site.
Here is how it works:
Nope.
Ranked choice robs both ends and pays the middle.
If I want Kelly, I shall rank her #1.
And say there are others that are Bearable.
And some not.
If Kelly doesn’t get 50%+1 on round 1, it goes through the succession of ranked choice.
Low man gets kicked out.
If you have selected a 2nd, 3rd and 4th ranking, Those will be favored in order through each round.
Thing is, you just threw your favorite out.
In round 2, are 2nd ranking are added up.
Again, if there is no 50% + 1 winner, low man gets kicked out again.
Thus eliminating the trailing end.
But, if you play that game, you first and favorite is thrown out in the first round.
This is roulette.
DO NOT PLAY THE RANKING GAME.
If you only select your #1, that will be your selection through every ranking contest.
Do not play the game.
From the official FAQ
“The candidate with the fewest votes gets eliminated. If you voted for that candidate, your vote goes to your next choice”
If your only choice is eliminated before the final round, what would happen?
For anyone who wants to look at the official website:
https://www.elections.alaska.gov/RCV.php
Let me rephrase that. If the one candidate you voted for is eliminated, then would it have been better to have a second option that would be counted?
Also from the official FAQ: (capitalization added)
“The candidate with the fewest votes gets eliminated. If you voted for that candidate, your vote goes to your next choice
and you still have a say in who wins.
IF YOUR FIRST CHOICE CANDIDATE WAS NOT ELIMINATED, your vote stays with them. Votes are counted again.”
Sorry, trying to figure out the voting process. I want your idea to work, btw.
Also from FAQ:
“What happens if I only vote for one candidate?
Your vote is counted in round one and your vote stays with your candidate throughout tabulation.”
No mention of what happens if candidate is eliminated. Does he or she get un-eliminated so that your vote can stay with him or her?
Spot on there.
I can’t trust him.
He is of the Begich Dynasty.
You cannot tell a thing about them by what they say.
But, they know what you want to hear.
I just can’t bring myself to line up behind him no matter what he says.
And he is saying mostly all the right things.
The worst thing that could happen is that your vote would be as intended.
I never had a problem losing in the normal system, but this is roulette, and I don’t like it.
It is a devious manipulation to make winners losers, and the math bears that out.
I’ll put some perspective here from Australia where we have been running preference voting forever. It is a shit system because we have compulsory voting and compulsory preferential voting. However, we did have non-preferential voting at one stage which meant you didn’t have to number (rank) all the candidates. Mark R is right-if none of the other candidates are appealing, just put a 1 next to your preferred choice and leave it at that. If all the MAGA crowd just put a 1 next to Palin (in this instance i assume Palin is the MAGA choice), she should get through with your vote following her all the way and none of your votes ending up with the enemy. When we had that we invariably got the government we wanted and some some bastardized system where the person with the most votes loses on preference. Sorry CW, but unless you have an ulterior motive, preferential voting is crap-take is from a 50yr who has been voting under that kind of system his entire life-it can be and does get gamed-and its usually done better by the left. Only a public servant could take a 1st past the post system, bring in a ranked system and then claim it was better and fairer.
I’ve been trying to figure out how a person’s vote can continue to count after the one candidate they voted for is out of the running.
Because the official website says that if you vote for one candidate then your vote stays with that candidate.
And then I realized. My candidate is in the “trash bin.” And my vote is with my candidate.
And second choice only comes into play if your first choice is eliminated.
If your first choice is eliminated then that candidate is not going to win. It now comes down to the lesser of evils. If you think Begich is a greater evil compared to the rest of the candidates, then fine.
You call it playing the system but I see it as playing to win while using the voting system you have to work with.
If my first choice gets eliminated, I am already past caring. I made my decision.
That’s your prerogative. But I think that if the best candidate is eliminated, it would be prudent to vote for second best / least worst.
There is no second best.
And no participation trophies either.
When there has to be continuous manipulation, i.e. reassignment of your votes to the “next” choice, there are many more avenues for fraud to occur. Ranked choice is ridiculously complex for the voter and also for auditing purposes.
Simplest is always the best solution. I think most of us recognize that intuitively as well as when we review all of the “ways” votes can get counted.
If there are issues with the simplest method, figure out what needs fixing and fix it without complicating the vote counting even more.
Ranked choice voting can be done in a lot of different ways. You have to learn what arbitrary rules and procedures are in place.
fact check-100% correct
If smart people are having difficulty with the ranked-choice process then how do you think the average voter is going to deal with it? Malicious people are going to control the system. You stupidly bought into it, Christian. Shame on you.
it doesn’t confuse her, it worries her-and she has repeatedly said and proven that in this thread so now who has trouble with comprehension. She is worried because most people are apathetic to how this works as it is not that easily understood without some research and she is worried because it can be gamed-and it will be-which is probably the point of why it was bought in.
Been told if your one and only vote for the 1st place favorite name does not take the race by a 50+1 number, your ballot is no longer in consideration at all. The traditional concept of one person, one vote no longer applies!
That’s right. Ranked-choice is do-overs! My first choice didn’t win? That’s OK, let me vote again for another person. I wish the GOP would outlaw this.
I see that Burlington Vermont had so much trouble with ranked-choice they got rid of it. But then the election manipulators pushed for it again and the stupid voters fell for it. So now it’s back. https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/scott-allows-burlington-ranked-choice-voting-bill-to-become-law/Content?oid=35610949
The voting system fell out of favor after the 2009 mayoral race, which crowned Progressive Bob Kiss the winner, even though he failed to win the most first-place votes over three rounds of voting. He defeated major party candidates Kurt Wright — a Republican who got the most votes in the first and second rounds, but fell short of 50 percent — and Andy Montroll, a Democrat who received the most first and second-place votes. Voters repealed the system in 2010.
Contrary to the State of Alaska Division of Elections.
Serena is correct, you stupidly bought into a system that most aren’t going to understand.
He, CW, gladly pushed ranked voting because he is a decepticon. He’s here to strut around so we can see how proud he is of his machinations to screw with the people’s vote. Reap the whirlwind, you crook. God is not mocked and you are in big trouble. There’s nothing you can do to avoid what’s coming to you. No ranked voting on your part will stop it.
No, if I only rank my first choice, it bears out in all rounds unless my Candidate is thinned out.
That is what the site tells me in plain English.
If your candidate is not thinned out, then your second choice does not come into play.
This is true. To an extent.
In second ranking, your Candidate is up against a different opposition.
Then, the eliminated Candidate votes get split up by ranking.
This continues until the Moderate eventually wins.
“In second ranking, your Candidate is up against a different opposition.”
I agree with that. But what is that different opposition? Not YOUR second ranking. Your second ranking cannot crowd out your first choice.
Did I misunderstand your comment? I thought you were saying that your second choice could be used against your first choice.
Nope.
I am making only one choice.
The second round, that is where they cut up the votes of the eliminated candidate and pass them around. By ranking.
See my directions to the Heritage Foundation article way up-thread.
Ranked choice voting is bad. But people who are stuck with it have to make the most of it, until they manage to get rid of it.
From the site:
What happens if I only vote for one candidate?
Your vote is counted in round one and your vote stays with your candidate throughout tabulation.
But what does that mean? If your candidate got eliminated, wouldn’t your vote be eliminated, too?
Honestly, if my Candidate were eliminated, it would be just like before we put on ranked choice.
I can live with an honest and outright loss.
But ranked choice is completely crazy.
It is crazy.
Sounds like a NEW voting scam. With computer voting the worst will always win.
Did people catch the Freudian slip that PDJT made about 3/4 into the speech about the horrible things the obama administration has done in less that 2 years.
Sundance totally nailed it with the “Obiden administration” and PDJT confirmed it.
I forgot where I saw or read it, but someone who I respect thinks Susan Rice is calling the shots. I think Obama isn’t smart enough to do it.
This might explain the chilly behavior Obama has toward Biden. Maybe it’s not actual chill but Obama is acting like he dislikes Biden so nobody thinks Obama is part of the shadow government.
Rice being the basic brain trust of the WH crew has been posited here a few times that I’ve seen.
Politico had a piece describing her little fiefdom inside the WH. Citizens Free Press linked to it 2-3 weeks ago. When I scanned it I thought of CTH/SD.
Definitely agree re: Rice. Add Ron Klain and BlackRock’s Brian Deese to the Duck Soup of evil behind O’Buyden.
Marc Elias, Jake Sullivan
A true rogue’s gallery!
As long as she “does it by the book……”
Why would NObama care about what we think at this point?
Look at Obama’s eyes over the years, even when in office. He’s half smashed on pakalolo he picks up every year in Hawaii from his chooming buddies. He’s never been the brain trust of anything.
Do you remember Susan Rice making a fool of herself promoting some bs story about Benghazi on different networks ? I think it was Benghazi. (Honestly, I am too lazy to look up the exact incident.)
She said the situation was the result of a filmmaker who caused unrest with a documentary— or whatever.
The point is that she really came across as an inarticulate, bumbling idiot.
She works for the cause, but she ain’t the brains.
I agree with you. I’ve learned to pay attention to my hackles.
The Presidency is being run by committee and Joe Biden is the one that stands before a Teleprompter.
A Politburo, if you will.
I heard it-thought for a second and caught it!
In a sane world during a less tumultuous time, Alaskans would definitely and soundly reject Murkowski and elect the dynamic duo of Sarah Palin and Kelly Tshibaka. If their speeches are any indication, each of them will actually represent the best interests of Alaskans and add positive energy to the often somnolent Republican party in the Senate and in the House.
Neither of them will drift into the comfortable shadows. Alaska will be heard with positive voices and not by the sleazy betrayals of a toady, pro Biden sell out.
Wonder how the local reporting was on this?
ha. Of course. Anti Free Speech Universities strike again.
Of course. lol
http://Www.mustreadalaska.com and http://www.alaskawatchman.com are our conservative sites. All others are liberal fake news.
Great tip, thanks!
One of PDJT’s best speeches ever IMO. Made the “smaller” venue seem like it contained 5 times the attendees!
Keep in mind none of the cheating machines have been banned or taken out of use, the cheaters who stole the last election are still working to screw us out of our sacred vote, NONE of them have been arrested nor have they been jailed or hanged for treason.
Let’s keep this real and sane.
It may the battle of the hackers of the Dominion machines down here in GA. No one believes Raffensberger won the Repub primary for SoS and Kemp’s win with 74% of the vote over Purdue seemed a bit high. Manual recounts of primary votes in select districts didn’t agree with the machines–a minor glitch perhaps. So, with them cheating and Abrams cheating we may have 110% turnout for the Gov’s race here in GA. Whoever does the best job to “bring out your dead” on election day will win.
The cheating machines weren’t enough to defeat PDJT in 2016, along with all thevold fashioned ways of stuffing the ballot box.
Thats why they HAD to roll out the Plandemic, cause they couldn’t steal the election without all those mail out ballots, and State law and Constitution violating “emergency measures” like drop boxes.
We need to address ALL means of election chicanery, and just as they used a “shotgun” approach with many different avenues of cheating ALL being deployed, WE need to not get focused on just one, and eliminate them all.
No drop boxes
No mail out unsolicited ballots.
Same day voting,
Voter I.D.
Hand count.
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court just ruled ballot drop boxes illegal in their state, so their upcoming primary elections should be much safer at the very least. Ballots can only be taken to the county clerk’s office, or designated election location and it cannot be done by a third party (certainly no bundles of ballots). This will, of course, require astute election observers.
Good news!
Lost all respect for Sarah when she endorsed the establishment candidate Mary Fallon for Governor of Oklahoma and helped defeat Randy Brogdon. He was set to win until “the establishment” AKA Sarah Palin stepped in.
I do not trust her
Just Sayin
2010 if I remember correctly
She did the same thing in South Carolina. We, I lived there then, had several very good candidates. Then Sarah shows up to endorse her girl, and now we have Nikki Haley lurking in the wings.
Her past endorsements all turned out to be super Rhinos. A few; Joni Earnst, Mario Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Sasse. Certainly there are more. Thought she was the real deal and voted for her, not her running mate. Just don’t understand how her endorsements turned out the way they did.
Her endorsement of Jeff Flake in AZ put him in the senate.
donefixin, you need to put the dates of the endorsements. It looks like Palin’s Sasse endorsement was 2014, I don’t think she endorsed him in 2020. I think her Rubio endorsement was also years ago. I might be wrong. But the years are very important. Anything pre-Trump is worlds away from post-Trump. Some of these people didn’t show their true colors until Trump became a presidential candidate in mid-2015.
Serena, I am a Sarah Palin fan, I have been on Team Sarah from the beginning. She and her family were grossly mistreated by the campaign, and all forms of media. This would tend to make me very cautious of anyone advising or making recommendations to me . The individuals she endorsed are of the same mindset today as they will be tomorrow as they were in the past, Republicans in name only. Those she endorsed and hauled over the finish line, now refuse to endorse her.
Republicans in name only refusing to endorse her, tells me she is doing something right. President Trump and his America First policies just brought to light their true nature. What happened to those endorsed individuals during the eight Obama years that lead up to President Trump. Hardly a peep. Perhaps some were not vetted properly or she was given bad information. Below is a list of her endorsements win or lose. No dates. https://us4palin.com/list-of-governor-palins-endorsement-outcomes/
She probably chose what she thought was the best of who was running. Like Trump said a lot of people ask for your endorsement who seem okay at the time and then turn out to be different. She has no control over what another person does.
Ah, so you ARE a water carrier for liberal Lisa M.
Coy, it’s Fallin, not Fallon. And based on a little bit of research I just did, she appears to be MAGA. Tell us what she’s done that you dislike.
Wow. You finally got the message. Skedaddle!
If I remember correctly she vetoed the constitutional carry of firearms when it came time to sign. It has been a few years, I will look it up. I left OK several years ago now
Looked it up and she vetoed it after she had earlier pledged to sign it into law.
“Shall not be infringed”
Don’t trust anything this nut is saying. He’s only here to cause trouble.
“The arena owner said this was a record gathering that won’t be beaten.”
Source:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/short-video-clips-president-trumps-record-gathering-alaska/
This was a thoroughly enjoyable evening.
Watching and listening to President Trump, the greatest president since George Washington, along with fellow patriots in the great state of Alaska!
Good God almighty. Look at that crowd. And Biden couldn’t even fill 13 circles. Trump is our rightful president.
The purity test of many is …..
Bullshit…. Haha. Love Trump talk.
Trump had Palin’s back in 2008 which I did not know about. I knew he liked her style-she’s a fighter. What the media did to her was evil. I am a solid supporter and am praying for her to win a seat. I am also praying Murkowski is ousted. President Trump did a great job revealing her liberal votes!
In 2008 the media was incredibly misogynist to both Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton.
Democrats have thrown everything the could against Trump. Stuff that would make an old republican fold and go away. Trump is still here and democrats are back on their heels.
Murkowski is too useful for the deep state cabal. She cannot be “voted” out.
What ever happened to EXIT POLLS? That would be a sure fire way to detect election fraud.
I am super concerned that the new ranked-choice voting is going to cause the House and Senate seats to be taken over by Dems or Indies. Indies will almost certainly side with the Dems, the ones in the current Senate do and that’s how the Dems have a majority in the Senate even though there are 50 Republicans and only 48 Dems.
Consider the Special Election general coming up on Aug 16. Palin was #1 coming out of the top-4 primary. One person (Gross) has dropped out so now there are only 3 candidates for the general.
Let’s say there are 100 voters and they vote like this:
49 vote Palin Begich Peltola
31 vote Peltola Begich Palin
20 vote Begich Peltola Palin
Notice that Palin has the most votes, with a comfortable lead. But because she doesn’t have 50+ the weeding begins. Begich is in last place so he’s knocked out, and his votes are gifted to his voters’ 2nd place choice, Peltola.
49 votes for Palin
51 votes for Peltola
Peltola wins. The GOP loses that House seat.
The way to solve this problem is for all conservatives/Republicans/anti-Dems to put Palin and Begich in the #1 and #2 spots, in whichever order they prefer.
49 vote Palin Begich Peltola
31 vote Peltola Begich Palin
20 vote Begich Palin Peltola <– notice the switch from the prior scenario
Again Begich is knocked out, but this time his votes go to Palin, not Peltola.
It’s very very important for voters to put Palin and Begich in the #1 and #2 spots, whichever order they prefer, so if one gets knocked out the other one gets the votes.
Just as I suspected, the groups pushing ranked-choice voting put out slick ads that only promote this type of voting and don’t explain how it can go wrong. They only present cases where people are honestly voting for their favorites, not examples of how malicious voters are engineering the elections to prevent primary winners from winning the general elections. And they don’t explain what happens when people don’t rank candidates for #2-#4 spots, they just tell you if you rank more candidates then you have more power and it “helps to ensure your voice is heard”. Pure propaganda.
Here’s what Influence Watch says about Alaskans for Better Elections, the group that produced the above ad:
Alaskans for Better Elections (ABE) is a ballot committee advocating for changes to the voting process affecting state elections in Alaska. Its initiatives include ranked choice voting, open primaries, and regulating anonymous campaign speech. The committee is associated with a number of people aligned with the Alaska Democratic Party and liberal interests in the state.
The three largest funders of Alaskans for Better Elections are Unite America, Action Now Initiative, and Represent.Us. All of these funding organizations are located outside of Alaska. [Hey Christian, you labelled me an “outsider”, what do you think about these groups?]
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/alaskans-for-better-elections-abe/
The ballot initiative which changed the way voting is done only narrowly passed in 2020, 50.55% to 49.45%. There are many more registered Republicans in Alaska than all of the other parties combined.
I am seriously worried about this.
Every two years for the past 80 years someone has convinced Republicans that they need to vote for another Republican to replace current Republican that just isn’t being a good Republican.
While promising that this new Republican will be different than the last 20-30 Republicans were in that roll.
But, no pattern to see here, nothing to note in similarly. Just keep voting and pretending not to know things.
But we have seen over and over again what happens when the Dems have control of the House and/or Senate. In 2018 because stupid voters gave away the House majority, Trump was impeached. Fortunately because the GOP still had the majority in the Senate McConnell, as much as everyone hates him, did the right thing and shut that mess down. And it was Grassley who called the Dems’ bluff with respect to Christine Blasey, only possible because the GOP had the majority in the Senate.
Voters need to wake the f up about majorities. The primaries are the time to get rid of RINOs and other problem people if you can. But in the general elections majorities are too important to focus on individual candidates or complain that the GOP isn’t perfect. GOP majorities are ALWAYS better than Dem majorities.
Do you think a GOP majority in the House would drive legislation to legalize abortion? Do you think a GOP majority would have impeached Trump? Do you think a GOP majority would have launched all of the anti-Trump kanagaroo courts? This is only done by Dems.
In order for Trump to have a chance at success if he runs in 2024, we MUST give the House and Senate majorities to the GOP in November and we must maintain those majorities in November 2024. Dems in control again means we’re screwed.
Pretty stupid and unnecessary President Trump to attack Elon Musk.
He called him out for lying to him. THAT was stupid by Elon.
If the result of calling him out publicly for lying is positive then fine. If it’s merely a fit of pique then not so fine. Trump does both.
Trump’s unprovoked attack on Elon Musk, one of the world’s smartest people, is the kind of mouth snafus that could cost him the 2024 nomination. I personally will vote for DeSantis because with him you get excellent, intelligent policy without the negative or self grandizing mouth!!
LMAO, yeah sure you will. jeez.
deSantis is incredibly disciplined. That isn’t a Trump trait. I’ll vote for whichever candidate wins the nomination. But I don’t see that either has a winning strategy for taking on the deep state. deSantis has a very supportive legislature in Talahassee but neither man will have a supportive legislature in DC even if it’s Repub. controlled. Also, the intel agencies and other govt agencies have all gone rogue. Trump wasn’t able to rein them in and the election was stolen from him, and so far I don’t think deSantis has addressed how he would take on DC. I think relief can only come from the people–a la truckers/farmers protests and that kind of thing. I don’t think any Conserv Pres can do much of anything in DC.
REd states and their governors could do a lot if they banded together and effectively nullified DC and the federal gov’t.
Good post but I think DC will be more with DeSantis than Trump specifically because DeSantis has self control.
Freeze the faces behind him; strange. Looks like the same playbook from 2016 – weird “Trump supporters” in camera.
This dog hunts.
Just saying…..