On 9/2/2022 6:41 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
On 9/1/2022 6:42 PM, film...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, September 1, 2022 at 5:27:36 PM UTC-7, Technobarbarian
wrote:
'Really?!' Bewildered Sarah Palin implodes after losing congressional
race to a Democrat
"Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola was declared the winner of the nation's
first ranked-choice voting contest on Wednesday night and will fill Last >>> Frontier's lone seat in the United States House of Representatives.
"Peltola, a former state legislator who will become Alaska’s first
indigenous member of Congress, defeated a special election field that
included Palin and another Republican, Nick Begich III," Politico
explained. "The Democrat finished first in the initial tally and then
won enough second-choice votes from Begich’s supporters to see off
Palin, who had former President Donald Trump’s endorsement and
previously won a statewide campaign in 2006."
Palin did not respond well to her vanquishing. Despite having agreed to
the rules when she became a candidate on April 1st, Palin bewailed that
ranked-choice voting was unfair because she lost.
"When it comes down to second and third-place votes, that's gonna decide >>> who's gonna win? Really?" she cheeped.
Palin was also mistaken about whose names were on the ballot.
"Alaskans want Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi?" she asked of the president
and Speaker of the House, both of whom are Democrats.
Peltola, Palin, and Begich will square off again for a full two-year
term in the general election on November 8th."
https://www.rawstory.com/really-bewildered-sarah-palin-implodes-after-losing-congressional-race-to-a-democrat/
TB
I don't think we've heard the last from Sarah Palin? She'll probably
win in November, and rapidly become part of MTG's "squad"... "Even
if Sarah had never existed, she'd still be in idea in the mind of
God..."
Norman Vincent Peel Jr.
I expect that we'll hear more from her. Grifters gotta grift. But, I don't think she's likely to win in November. A lot of Alaskans remember that she told them she wouldn't quit her job as governor. Her primary legacy in AK is quitting.
"ANCHORAGE — The Matanuska-Susitna Valley, a lush patch of the state
where the rivers are fed by glacial meltwater, is where Sarah Palin
launched her political career three decades ago. In the heart of the state’s conservative movement, she rose from city council member to small-town mayor, before beating a sitting Republican governor and
becoming the GOP nominee for vice president in 2008.
But to construction contractor Jesse Sumner, who was born and raised in
the valley and in 2018 was elected to the local borough assembly on a platform of fiscal conservatism and gun rights, that’s all a distant
memory overshadowed by what he sees as years of political neglect. Now,
as Palin seeks a comeback in a run for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat,
she won’t be getting his support.
“I think maybe she left us behind somewhere on the way to fame,” said Sumner, who has supported the candidacy of one of Palin’s opponents
since last fall and is not changing his plans. He complained that Palin
— who has spent much of the past decade as a right-wing celebrity,
bouncing between reality TV, cable news punditry and the Trump movement
— hasn’t been involved in Alaska politics since leaving office in 2009.
When she did show up at a Republican fundraiser last year, “everybody
was surprised to see her there,” Sumner said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/16/palin-campaign-alaska/
She spent four times as much on her campaign as the woman who won the special election, and it doesn't look like her fame helped her all
that much either.
TB
"Why Sarah Palin’s loss is a warning for the GOP
A chunk of Alaska’s Republican voters, who strongly favored Trump in
2020, preferred a Democrat over the lightning-rod candidate."
"Everyone who could read a poll or a room in Alaska knew Sarah Palin was unpopular in her home state. What was jarring to Republicans about her
defeat in a U.S. House race there was that so many conservatives were
unwilling to vote for her, anyway.
In an election that could spell disaster for pro-Donald Trump
hard-liners in states across the midterm electoral map, only about half
of voters who supported a more traditionalist Republican, Nick Begich
III, as their first choice in Alaska’s new ranked-choice voting system
marked Palin as their second pick.
The others went for the Democrat or no one at all.
Palin, a former governor and one-time political sensation, had tethered
herself to Trump in a reliably red state, with a similarly fervent base
of support. But her race, more than any primary this year, had
approximated a traditional general election where a candidate is
rewarded for appealing to a broad swath of voters.
Her defeat was the firmest evidence yet this year that at least some Republicans may be turned off enough to vote the other way in the
midterms and potentially, beyond."
"When longtime Alaska pollster Ivan Moore of Alaska Survey Research
polled Palin’s standing with Alaskans in July, her favorability rating
stood at 31 percent. Republicans should have seen then, he said, that
“she was on the brink of being unelectable.”"
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/02/sarah-palin-loss-gop-alaska-00054633
We're a long way from the days when Palin could put her name on
oil money checks that were sent to Alaskans.
TB
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