After Republican voters seemingly delivered a Democrat Alaska’s sole congressional seat Wednesday night, right-wing commentators declared ranked-choice voting a terrible, no good, very bad idea.
Anything that doesn’t result in a Republican being installed in office is a scam. Like letting “the wrong people” vote.
So, when does Palin start claiming she actually won?
If Caribou Barbie can still see Russia from her home, maybe she can get a gig with Putin.
If this had been a race with two competitive Democrats and one Republican to pick up the larger percentage instead, the shoe would be on the other foot. But at this point it’s impossible for Republicans to care about anything but winning, and if they don’t, it has to be the system at fault, whether it’s ranked-choice or not.
They’re really such whiney little snowflakes.
All the chatter seems to point to sore loserism, but fully expect opportunistic Rs (a redundancy in most cases) to seize on this as “proof” that this sort of mysterious “math-based” voting, and voting in general, is corrupted.
Everyone knows that Sarah Palin and Laura Loomer are already members of Congress regardless of what whether or not they win more votes in elections and primaries.
Funny, but if all those Republicans had ranked one R as their first choice and the other R as their second choice, one of the Rs could have won. But they didn’t. The bottom line is that the majority of Alaskans wanted the Dem as their first or second choice.
Yep … right up there with Algebra … Calculus … Compounded Interest …and Day Light Savings Time
“After losing the White House, Congress and Scotus (eventually), Republicans Think America is a scam”.
Hmmm so when do they change their minds about Abortion, Trump, and Elections in general?
Proving, once again, as if we needed more proof, after all this time, after all these incidents, as if we had amnesia and everything in every moment were brand new, like were newborn babies or doddering ancients in the memory ward, that … I lost my train of thought.
The GQP message for the few of us Americans who listen and comprehend it is always the same: we can’t win legitimately, our actual policies for those paying attention are unpopular, so we have to cheat.
Conveniently for the Confederate Party there are lots of Americans who are fine with the cheating, as long as the same people are harmed as they hate, and damn the collateral damage.
Something else “Ranked Choice” voting does is give 3rd Party candidates more of a chance by allowing voters to choose their first choice without hurting a second choice or helping a no choice.
That is the biggest argument against voting for other than a Democrat or a Republican is that only a Democrat or a Republican win and therefore voting for a 3rd Party is throwing your vote away. Ranked choice voting allows a person to vote for a 3rd Party candidate, or any candidate thought not to have a real chance to win, while still having their vote count.
For example, think what would have happened had Florida had ranked choice voting in 2000 and all those Green Party Ralph Nader votes were allowed a second choice.
Her QAsshole disciples are already claiming that she won.
The GQP wants power at any cost
Every Alaskan who voted for Sarah Palin made a rank choice.
To be scrupulously fair, Daylight Savings Time is a scam. Or at least an unnecessary inconvenience.
I hope that it gets phased out, never to see the light of day again.