Go to some Republican events in Alaska right now, and you will get an earful about Sarah Palin.
“That family’s been around this valley forever. They’re great people. I love ’em,” said Patrick McCollum, 65, of Palin’s clan. He has voted for Palin in the past but now believes she has too much baggage to be an effective congresswoman. When asked about Trump’s endorsement of Palin, McCollum shrugged: “We all make mistakes.”
“I’ve known Sarah since she was a little girl,” said Edna DeVries, the mayor of Mat-Su Borough and former president of the women’s group that hosted the chili cook-off. “We feel Nick is more solid regarding—he’s not gonna be somebody who’s gonna chase the headlines.” DeVries said that this isn’t the first time Palin has caused a rift among Republicans in her own backyard. When she accepted the vice-presidential nomination in 2008, some Alaskans objected, on the grounds that the then-governor should stay in Alaska and, well, govern.
Nick Begich could still win in November. And if he does, it will be due to one of the primary selling points of ranked-choice voting: The system is deliberately designed to elevate candidates who are not just popular with their party’s base but whom the majority of all voters agree they can live with.
Here’s where things get a bit technical, so stay with me: If, in the special election, every conservative Alaska voter who ranked a Republican first on their ballot had ranked theRepublican second, a Republican would have won the special election. But that’s not what they did.Begich came in third, so he was eliminated after the first round of counting in the special election. Then, his votes were redistributed to the voters’ second-choice candidates, only about half of which went to Palin.
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