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It’s official: Sarah Palin cost the GOP a House seat
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Sep 10, 2022 09:28am |
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| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Friday, September 9, 2022 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sarah Palin has made no secret since her loss in the Alaska special congressional election last week that she doesn’t appreciate the state’s new ranked-choice voting system, which she and other prominent conservatives have blamed for her loss.
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The state Division of Elections has put out new data on how the election went down. And the data suggest that the other Republican in the race, Nick Begich, would have defeated Rep.-elect Mary Peltola (D) if the race had boiled down to the two of them.
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Begich, it appears, would not have suffered the same fate in a scenario in which Palin had been eliminated instead. According to a review by FairVote, 59 percent of Palin’s voters would have gone to Begich, while just 6 percent would’ve gone to Peltola — far less than the 28 percent of Begich-first voters who crossed the aisle. |
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