AK-AL Special election: Peltola wins!

[brucejoel99]

> "Democratic incumbent running"
> Alaska

It's beautiful 🥹

[cvparty]

not a double-digit trump state flipping in a dem midterm LMFAO
sarah palin is powerful

[7,052,770]

Too bad it's only for a few months and Begich will handily defeat her in November. Cool though! I like Peltola.

Why would we expect the the Peltola-Palin-Begich order to be different this time around? Will enough people who voted Palin at #1 and Begich at #2 swap them this time?

[WD]

The Storm Is Here.

[Nyvin]

Palin got ~27k out of almost 54k of Begich's votes....that's horrible.   People really don't like her in Alaska.

[cvparty]

Too bad it's only for a few months and Begich will handily defeat her in November. Cool though! I like Peltola.

Why would we expect the the Peltola-Palin-Begich order to be different this time around? Will enough people who voted Palin at #1 and Begich at #2 swap them this time?

higher turnout

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Red: States that Sarah Palin has lost an election in:

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Palin got ~27k out of almost 54k of Begich's votes....that's horrible.   People really don't like her in Alaska.

It's no Red wave the pundits just assumed it due to a Midterm that's all the Rs aren't offering anything what have they offered they are just running on Gerrymandering districts that SCOTUS DREW FOR THEM LIKE WISCONSIN KAVANAUGH DREW WISC 3 UP AND WE STILL CAN WIN IT, we are within 5

The Rs we're looking at 241 seats NOT

[Minnesota Mike]

Official results including RCV breakdown.

https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/22SSPG/RcvDetailedReport.pdf

[Progressive Pessimist]

Title change pun suggestion time!

"For Whom the Pel Tols."

[Arizona Iced Tea]

https://twitter.com/tencor_7144/status/1565131233348182021?cxt=HHwWioCz6Y6ku7grA...

[Brittain33]

If Joe Kent loses, does this mean we could truly have the entire Pacific coast represented by Dems?

[S019]

Red: States that Sarah Palin has lost an election in:

It's time to get her to carpetbag to Arizona like she considered doing in 2012.

[wbrocks67]

Red wave cancelled!

The fact that Peltola was only shy ~2% of Bidens 2020 share and then now has won shows that yes, Palin being a horrific candidate meant something, but this shouldn't have even been possible in an alleged "red wave" environment with Biden as president.

Also LOL @ Jotline Hosh coping so bad on Twitter.

[GALeftist]

I am high as a gd kite on hopium right now folks.

[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

For all the s*** Republicans have talked about representing physical land area over the last decade or so, it sure is nice to win the largest, least densely-populated state in the country.

[Anti-Trump Truth Socialite JD Vance Enjoying Juror]

I don’t see how this can be possible?? I was assured that candidate quality is a meme and that the midterm effect trumps everything else.

[7,052,770]

Too bad it's only for a few months and Begich will handily defeat her in November. Cool though! I like Peltola.

Why would we expect the the Peltola-Palin-Begich order to be different this time around? Will enough people who voted Palin at #1 and Begich at #2 swap them this time?

higher turnout

Higher turnout probably helps Palin, maybe even enough to win in November. She would surely perform better vs. Begich among the low-propensity Republicans who didn't show up for a special compared to the more politically active establishment types who preferred Begich.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I’m extremely cautiously optimistic but this firmly cements my belief that the absolute ceiling for republicans is 225, more realistically they’ll land right around 220.

Democrats really could potentially keep the house this year

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

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Another first: Peltola will be the first Alaska-born Representative for this seat.

That also makes her the first member of Congress born in the state of Alaska (Lisa Murkowski was the first member of Congress born in Alaska less than two years before it became a state.)

[cvparty]

Too bad it's only for a few months and Begich will handily defeat her in November. Cool though! I like Peltola.

Why would we expect the the Peltola-Palin-Begich order to be different this time around? Will enough people who voted Palin at #1 and Begich at #2 swap them this time?

higher turnout

Higher turnout probably helps Palin, maybe even enough to win in November. She would surely perform better vs. Begich among the low-propensity Republicans who didn't show up for a special compared to the more politically active establishment types who preferred Begich.

sorry, misread the post—yeah i agree. but there’s a non-zero chance that enough palin voters abandon her after her loss this month

[GALeftist]

https://twitter.com/RebeccaPalsha/status/1565132891289681925

[brucejoel99]

I literally don't remember the last time that the election predictions were this wrong:

[Minnesota Mike]

Even though I think she is still a huge underdog in November I just donated $25 to Peltola. Buying some political lottery tickets.