Let us not forget Murkowski actually lost a primary in 2010 as an incumbent then turned around and ran as a write in and won the general. She is not above trying to do anything to keep her seat. She and her cronies pushed to implement rank choice voting and given her past I would bet dollars to doughnuts they did so because they thought it would give her an advantage and avoid having to run in a heads-up Republican primary.
If a state votes for a write in over the primary winner the voters probably want that candidate. That’s the unfair thing about the traditional primary system. It favors the most radical candidates because the radical voters are the most motivated voters. They show up to primary elections.
If a carpetbagger is defined as one who is perceived to be exploiting the local populous for their own financial, political and social gain, then Mittens is most certainly a carpetbagger.
You forgot one important part of the definition, a non-resident or new resident esp. without ties to the area. While both went to college in the respective states, Romney owned a vacation home there for several years iirc 10+ and SLC being the location of the main church/headquarters of his religion. Along with living there for 4 years or so in addition to the time he lived there for college before he ran. Iffy on carpetbagger at least IMO.
I call both carpetbaggers. I personally apply the logic of why did the subject move to the state, to run for election or other reasons that seem legit.
The problem I see is that few people want to really diagnose what the problem was. Like shade tree mechanics, they want to just change one part, the only one they are able to believe is the cause of their problems, and have that fix everythingFirst, you're welcome to set expectations for me if you want. I kinda think it's silly to do that. But you're welcome to. Rest assured, I don't set expectations for you. So you can't disappoint me.
But anyway, that is kinda silly don't you think? You conflate individuals setting expectations for other individuals with an election? I kinda get the feeling that if Republicans won bigger than expected and I said they over-performed expectations, you'd probably agree.
If you think the experts expectations were flawed, of course your opinion is yours to have. But the experts got key races very wrong. Republicans under-performed the typical mid-term opposite-party wave though. Rather than denying it, accept that it's true and figure out how to overcome it.
When people on this board are already talking watering down AF in order to appeal to those mythical 'independent voters'? I predict that 'competence' will be something that the Club for Growth will love, the real turd - bipartisanship - will be polished some more, and the best parts of AF will be left on the cutting room floor
Ironically, seems like a pretty good description of the work from home, normalcy-bias demographic
What I didn't understand is why they implemented ranked choice the way they did. I would think if you had, say, three candidates they would be given 3 points for each time they were ranked first, 2 points for second and one point for third. To decide the election a numerical point total would be calculated for each contestant and the one with the highest point total would win. That seems to be the way to find the most popular result rather than the more byzantine process used in Alaska. I always thought the promise of RCV was to allow people to vote their heart for number one while still indicating a practical choice as next best if their first choice wasn't getting it done and have both choices count
Freudian slip?
For Romney, he moved to MA for work and lived there for 8 years before running for office. Not sure the exact reason he moved to UT but him and his wife obviously liked it seeing as they owned a vacation home there for at least 10 yrs, he headed the SLC Olympic committee when they were hosting the Olympics, along with living there for 4 years or so before running for office. Among other things. I'd say to make the case for him being a carpetbagger is much more difficult than to make one for Oz. Who lived there for what less than a year before announcing and was living with his in-laws? And had no prior ties that I know of to that state other than attending college.
We don't think Trump is perfect in any other way than perfect for the job of dismantling our descent into Marxism (if we also get him some help in congress)
What about someone who suggests that those who defend Trump don't sufficiently evaluate what that poster thinks is important and thus are too binary and haven't examined the issues with sufficient care and acuity?
Mittens owns multiple homes in multiple states concurrently. But where is his allegiance?
If the system can't even be relied upon to filter out those who never had the right to vote or never even existed, how would you expect to enforce such an idea where it counts?
Is that a flaw with the system or a flaw in the electorate
