AK-SEN 2022: A Rank Choice

[Utah Neolib]

If the latest RCV polling is to be believed, then Gross better not jump into this: his entry holds Murkowski to 3rd before he loses to Tshibaka in the final round, & while Murkowski may still be an R, she's not evil like Tshibaka. The devil you know...

Screw that.
I’m sick to death of Democrats conceding races in the hopes of getting a kinder gentler Republican.
If Murkowski wants Gross to drop she can switch parties.

Ok, but when Gross f**ks Murkwoski over & Tshibaka - pure-evil who'll never in a million years be as good for Dems as Murkowski has managed to be - is sworn-in as a Senator, it's not on us who had the foresight to anticipate said outcome.

Explain to me how Murkowski is good for Dems? With the proviso the one vote from 4 years ago does not count. Gross isn’t screwing Murkowski, the Democratic party’s job is to elect Democrats.

Incidentally, wasn’t going out of it’s way to protect ‘good’ Republicans and nominating party switchers a hallmark of the Florida Dems? How’s that been working out for you guys?

"With the proviso that the instance in which she was literally a deciding vote to save health-care for 30 million Americans - which, once again, Tshibaka would never, ever be in a million years - doesn't count?" K, let's see then: pro-choice? Check. Pro-LGBTQ+? Check. Pro-criminal justice reform? Check. Pro-affirmative action? Check. Pro-statutorily fighting hate crimes? Check. Pro-affordable housing? Check. Pro-tax breaks for low- & middle-income households? Check. Pro-Dreamer, pro-amnesty, pro-pathway to citizenship, anti-reduce & restrict legal immigration, & anti-wall? Check, check, check, check, & check. Pro-banning Trump from federal office for literally inciting an insurrection upon the U.S. Capitol? Check. Pro-net neutrality? Check. Pro-federal marijuana reform? Check. Anti-USPS ratf**king? Check. Pro-PATRIOT Act reform? Check. Pro-Iranian de-escalation? Check. Anti-Russia? Check. Tshibaka? Nowhere near all of those, because she's just a Trumpist.

The Democratic Party's job is to elect Democrats, yes, but when that's not at all likely, it should also be to stop pure-evil. It's a simple cost-benefit analysis to understand that while Gross > Murkowski > Tshibaka, Gross isn't winning, & at that point, it's just not at all unreasonable to wanna stop Tshibaka at all costs by any politically strategic means necessary.

And hallmark? Literally the only guy who did it was Crist, & while he shouldn't have been stupid enough to do what he did in 2010 (though, after having done so, Meek should've heeded the advice of Obama & Clinton to drop-out in order to stop Rubio, which Crist had a much better chance of doing in a one-on-one with Rubio than Meek did), he still managed to hold Scott to a 1% win in 2014 despite that year otherwise being a total & complete (non-Atlas) red wave before going on to amass an avg. House Democratic vote-record. It obviously didn't work out as well as it could've (i.e., Obama/Clinton actually getting Meek to help stop Rubio in 2010, a Crist win in 2014), but it's not the apocalypse that you seem to be implying it was. The FDP has been hopelessly incompetent on the basis of many, many reasons, but this isn't one of them.