You know, I also have to wonder if the unsung hero of this whole ordeal is Al Gross, or if he just would have been eliminated first and we would have ended up with this result anyway.
There are probably enough people who just don't "get" ranked choice voting and just pick 1 that even if he came in 4th and sent almost all of his votes to Peltola, it still would have broken the race to Palin.
Huh, so it turns out the unsung heroes are people who don't understand ranked choice voting, if Begich having more votes exhausted than was expected is anything to go by... That or, you know, Palin's unpopularity. Sounds like a perfect conflagration if I have my five-dollar words in order.
