Sarah Palin loses special election...
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Crappy election system. The two Republicans canceled each other out.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@Jolly said in Sarah Palin loses special election...:
Crappy election system. The two Republicans canceled each other out.
On the positive side, Sarah Palin lost.
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The winner will be in the seat until the fall election. After that, she has to run again.
Special elections are very different critters than regular elections.
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The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Jolly said in Sarah Palin loses special election...:
Crappy election system. The two Republicans canceled each other out.
If you look at the numbers, it seems like had this been a “normal” election process Palin would have won the primary and lost the general.
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Yeah, if the other Republican’s supporters had listed Palin as their #2 she would have won. They didn’t. I don’t have an issue with these results.
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@Jolly said in Sarah Palin loses special election...:
Crappy election system. The two Republicans canceled each other out.
Yep. The person who got 40% of the vote won.
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@Jolly said in Sarah Palin loses special election...:
Crappy election system. The two Republicans canceled each other out.
Yep. The person who got 40% of the vote won.
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@jon-nyc said in Sarah Palin loses special election...:
Again based on the actual numbers the D would have won in a normal process.
You never know. 40% may have been her ceiling.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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The winner will be in the seat until the fall election. After that, she has to run again.
Special elections are very different critters than regular elections.
@George-K said in Sarah Palin loses special election...:
Special elections are very different critters than regular elections.
I don't know about over here, but in the UK they tend to disproportionately favour the party that is not in power, since the opportunity for a protest vote is a big factor.
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@jon-nyc said in Sarah Palin loses special election...:
Again based on the actual numbers the D would have won in a normal process.
You never know. 40% may have been her ceiling.
@George-K said in Sarah Palin loses special election...:
@Jolly said in Sarah Palin loses special election...:
Crappy election system. The two Republicans canceled each other out.
Yep. The person who got 40% of the vote won.
And 30% was Palin’s. When secondary votes were taken into consideration the Democrat and up over 50% and Palin didn’t. The people spoke, and this is a legitimate decision. Over half of the voters said they didn’t want Palin…
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The much bigger issue is that they were fighting for a seat that was held by one guy for 50 frigging years.
