How did Palin do? Hope she lost.She's another one I am sick of hearing and seeing.

[debm55]

[NowISeetheLight]

1. Trade?

She can see Russia from her house... how about we trade her for Brittney Griner?

[PortTack]

2. Last I looked, it may go to a run off.

[Claustrum]

3. Alaska isn't a run off state. They have rank choice. That's how we got the house seat a few months

ago.

[themaguffin]

4. She lost.

[debm55]

10. YES, now Sarah and tRump can fade away into the sunset.

[Claustrum]

5. Last I saw, the democrat had 47%, Palin 26, the other republican 24

I think it would be easy to get that 3% when the second round of rank choice is counted from the other republican. Given, I don't know if the 47% is the final number.

[karynnj]

8. I think I agree if you mean if Belich is the one out rather than Palin

I suspect a higher percent of his voters would choose the Democrat over Palin. Many did in the special election recently. Given how close to 50 percent she is, she does not need a huge percent of the reallocated votes. I wonder if the GOP made a point that people should not give her second choice votes given the special election. I do hope there are enough never Palin.

[Claustrum]

9. Right. I am hoping that Palin would keep her second place.

If she falls to third, I think we will lose unless we can somehow get to 50% right off the bat. Basically the same scenario that happened a few months ago when we won the house seat.

[emulatorloo]

6. Full results from Alaska won't be known until November 23.

“Full results from Alaska, which uses ranked-choice voting, won't be available until Nov. 23.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/election-results/2022/alaska/

[Cattledog]

7. Latest results 75% counted

Mary Peltola*incumbent
Democrat 100,538 +47.1%47.1%

Sarah Palin
Republican 56,791 +26.6%26.6

Nick Begich
Republican 51,765 +24.3%24.3

[Deep State Witch]

11. Her and Begich

Are splitting the GQP vote

[Bucky]

12. That's not how it works.

With ranked choice voting, you eliminate the "splitting the vote" factor in three way races. Palin has the potential to pick up all of the votes from 3rd place finisher Begich, and then she'd win 53-47. Fortunately for the country, there seems to be a large contingent of Republican voters who can't deal with her inane ramblings, and they're giving their 2nd choice to the Democrat, US Rep. Peltola. She'll need about 3 of the 24 percentage points (or about 13% of Begich's voters) to win a full term.

Alaskan Republicans could easily win back this seat next time around. But they'd have to be willing to voter for an actual grown-up to gain that advantage.

[Deep State Witch]

13. Oh, okay

I think you're right. There's a lot of Alaskans that remember what a train wreck she was - and how she quit halfway through her term. That's what happened earlier this year.