Earlier this month, we discussed the efforts by the Democrats to use Alaska’s obscene ranked-choice voting system to push through Democrat Mary Peltola for another term. The plan involved some liberal Super PACs in Washington flushing advertising money to raise the profile of three Republicans running against her for the seat. Only the top four vote-getters in the primary move on to the general election, so the theory is that if they can split the conservative vote between the three, Pelota might be able to narrowly hang on for another term. At the time, I suggested that the only way to defeat this plot would be for the three leading Republican candidates, Nick Begich, Nancy Dahlstrom, and Gerald Heikes to agree that only the one who received the most votes in the primary would move on and the other two would drop out. Yesterday, after failing to garner the most primary votes, Lt….
Alaska Republican May Have Thwarted Democrats’ Plans – HotAir
