Special Election megathread (5/21: CA-20)

[Rocky Rockefeller]

The red wave has been cancelled. This is not a drill folks!

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Great news this replaced Crist vote

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

LET’S GO ALASKA

[Oryxslayer]

The Detailed report. A little over 20% of Begich's votes exhausted, Peltola got a bit over 35% of his transferred votes.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Not sure what to even say here. Is the House a toss-up now?

[Biden 2024]

My god

[soundchaser]

So basically lots more exhausted votes than were modeled — what a lot of us were expecting based on past RCV elections.

[riceowl]

Not sure what to even say here. Is the House a toss-up now?

Ehhh I think this is a pretty unique situation, but it certainly isn't BAD news.

[Xing]

Wow. I definitely wouldn’t have seen this coming.

[brucejoel99]

Holy sh*t

[Mexican Wolf]

This is awesome! Congratulations, Rep. Peltola!

[Mike88]

Freedom result!!

[Ferguson97]

oh my god!!!!!

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

Palin only won half of Begich’s 2nd choice votes.

[Gracile]

I know it's difficult to extrapolate the greater significance of this result because of the quirks of the RCV system and the uniqueness of the candidates/Alaska's politics generally, but a 3% margin is a substantial win for Democrats.

[It’s so Joever]

I guess Palin won’t be able to see Washington from her backyard.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Dark Brandon August, on the very last day of the month, is still delivering! This is incredible! Palin's latest attempt at relevancy has been rejected with much due prejudice!

This is what happens when you nominate s***-tier candidates, Republicans! This is what happens when you f*** America in the ass, Larry!

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Wow.  Considering how much I dislike Sarah Palin and how much I heartily push for more women in office (especially minority women), this result pleases me.  

[Crumpets]

I always knew you had it in you Alaska! Congratulations to the first Yup'ik member of Congress!

[Alcibiades]

PATRIOTS IN CONTROL

[MT Treasurer]

Not worth reading much if anything into special elections, but I do think Republicans losing Alaska for good is going to happen sooner rather than later. In my view, Blue Alaska is probably more likely than Blue Texas by the end of the decade.

[It’s so Joever]

Not worth reading much if anything into special elections, but I do think Republicans losing Alaska for good is going to happen sooner rather than later. In my view, Blue Alaska is probably more likely than Blue Texas by the end of the decade.

Peltola also is a pretty in tune candidate in how strong it she supported fishing industry, that probably helped.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Dems won in Alaska for the first time in 50 years! No conclusions can be derived from this!

[new_patomic]

I know you can't extrapolate much from this, for obvious reasons and quirks.

But it's hard to imagine that Dems win this if Biden's approval ratings are still in the 30s, either.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Not worth reading much if anything into special elections, but I do think Republicans losing Alaska for good is going to happen sooner rather than later. In my view, Blue Alaska is probably more likely than Blue Texas by the end of the decade.

It was already blue Begich beat Ted Stevens in 2008 remember and he lost to Sullivan in 2014