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Congratulations to Mary Peltola and the Alaska Democrats! (Looking at you too, u/AnchorageDemocrats!)
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LETS GOOOOO WE FINALLY WON THIS SEAT!!
DEMOCRATS FROM THE TOP ROPE!
OH MY GOD IT’S PELTOLA WITH A STEEL CHAIR
STUNNER! STUNNER! BUH GAWD THE GOP IS BROKEN IN HALF
RING THE DAMN BELL!!!!!!!!!
I get my hopes up for Blue Alaska every election and they always let me down. It's finally real this time!
Pat Chesbro for U.S. Senate, pass it on.
for a few months… still got to nab it for two years
Yeah but now she's incumbent. And Sarah Palin is...nothing :)
One funny fact is that despite having 51% of the house seats, democrats only represent ~16% of us land. Today they doubled that number.
Gonna look real good on maps now
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Like, a lot bigger:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaska_map_over_US_map.jpg
Ohh definitely.
More than DOUBLE the size of Texas!
Rank partisanship 🤬
Represent land... Ugh.
Ya gotta embrace 18th century political thinking my man.
Trees have a voice
My grandpa use to say they spoke Vietnamese though.
I love this fact.
All those boomerfacebookmemes saying "Look at the counties Trump won in 2016!" always wildly scale down Alaska vs. the lower 48. They are dumb for many other reasons too but that's the most acutely dumb.
Fun fact: every single Dem held district can fit inside Alaska
Funner fact: NOT ANY MORE LOL
ALASKA..
...in
Alaska?
We get to do it again on November 8th. Thank YOU all for the support! We will be keeping the pressure on to turn Democrats out to the polls.
edit - Thank you for the awards!!! Not sure how we report these for our campaign finance…might have to post a follow up 🤷🏽
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CLEVELANDANCHORAGE, THIS IS FOR YOU!"You did a great job and should feel proud of yourselves !
Congrats!
Alaska, you have SHOCKED the nation!
Shut up and take my money!
https://twitter.com/umichvoter/status/1565128236530647040
MARY PELTOLA 91206 (51.5%)
SARAH PALIN 85987 (48.5%)
20% exhaust rate.
Yup
No one thought Peltola would win by that much. Definitely more than just funky Alasak/RCV
Edit: literally every election forecaster is shocked by the margin. This was unexpected
Robert Hockema predicted 20% exhausted from Begich.
20% is lower than what I heard would be necessary for Peltola to win (thought it would have to be more like 30%). She must have done a great job getting 2nd choice votes from Begich voters.
Congratulations to you! This must feel amazing!
Wound up being almost exactly correct. Begich voters went 50% Palin, 29% Peltola, 21% exhausted.
Uh, that's about the margin either 538 or Alaska Survey Research predicted with a round 1 elimination of Begich. So it's consistent with that.
An R+9 fucking seat?? Blue Alaska??
I'm so excited for November.
R +11!
Let's remember that the same voting group of people that voted this way is gonna vote again in November not only for the House single seat but also for Murkowski's seat. Imagine flipping it as well.
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Alaska's a weird state politically, perhaps the weirdest. But I'm very happy with this result!
Our conservatism has a libertarian flare to it and less allegiance to the republican party than anywhere else in the country. I tell people all the time it's a purple state if you look beyond the presidential results, and here we are. I mean, we elected an independent governor and democratic lieutenant governor not that long ago.
Weirdness or not the GOP blew a race in a state/CD that Trump won by 10. In order have a majority in the House a party must be able to navigate the complexities and weirdness of many different areas. If the GOP can't cope with Alaska's weirdness and opted to nominate a crazy person then that speaks to broader problems with the party.
I'm extremely unconvinced that Alaska is particularly disconnected from National Politics and that candidate quality matters so much more than other States.
Trump won Statewide by 10.1, Sullivan by 12.7, and Young by 9.1. Not THAT much ticket splitting.
Yeah as many huge problems as I have with Murkowski, a write in victory for a Senate seat is wild and speaks to how unique the state is
Look into Joe Miller, her opponent.
Also look up Schaffer Cox, for what might be a clearer picture of what Joe Miller represents.
Trump won Alaska by 10 points in 2020. Even in 2018 we still lost Alaska by 6 even when we won the House. This race comes at the heels of another big Democratic special election victory in NY-19 and after Kansas decisively voted down an abortion ban. We've also seen some national polls that would allow Dems to take the House.
There is a lot of work to do and obviously there were some local factors at play in this race apart from the national ones. That said Dems can expand their majority in both the House and the Senate and Dems CAN elect more women of color to Congress even in places Trump won. Alaska proves it.
Don’t underestimate how much moderates and center right republicans in Alaska despise Sarah Palin. I know a fair number of people who have voted republican their whole life but still went Begich>Peltola>Palin because they would vote for anybody just to keep hillbilly Kardashian away from our politics.
I acknowledged that there were local factors at play. Of course there are some people in Alaska who normally aren't Democrats but who think Palin could have done a better job as governor. That's to be expected.
The thing is the GOP is nominating weak candidates in a lot of other states. Oz in PA, Vance in OH, Palin in AK, Dixon in MI, this is part of a broader trend. GOP voters could have rallied behind someone else but they didn't. They chose a candidate that would piss off huge sections of the electorate and they lost as a result. This same thing happened repeatedly in 2018 and 2020 and it's still happening in 2022. Palin is NOT an isolated incident and there is no excuse for the GOP blowing a special election in a state that Trump won by 10. If Dems get the same margins Biden got in 2020 they will hold the House in 2022 and if the GOP can't come within 10 points of that performance because they couldn't consolidate their base and nominated a crazy person... well that's a problem for them.
You mean like finishing her term?
“The Quitta From Wasilla” I heard her described as many times.
Holy shit that’s awesome. Ranked choice voting has saved our country from Sarah Palin
Plz bring ranked choice everywhere.
It may be the only way to save us from the crazies.
r/RankTheVote
we might actually win the house omg
Not just win the House we might actually EXPAND THE MAJORITY IN BOTH CHAMBERS AND GOVERNOR'S MANSIONS!
Let's work work work! Now is our moment! LET'S DO IT!!!
This is a huge momentum boost!
☺️
You must be thrilled right now!
It's been a rough election til now IMHO.
Honestly insane that Alaska and national Dems have gone full tilt, millions in spending, into flipping this seat no less than 7 times against Don Young and now we flip it on a random Wednesday in August while we have a trifecta.
First Democrat statewide since Mark Begich in 2008 and obviously first Dem in AK-AL since the og Nick Begich in 1970
Goes to show how beloved Youngs brand was
It was the overturning of Roe v. Wade that put us over the top IMO. Alaska is one of THE most pro-choice states with 63-34 for-against abortion (Pew).
I expect more triangulation nonsense from Republicans from now until November where they say they are against a woman’s right to do what she wants with her body but also oppose the national ban on abortion GOP leaders are currently proposing.
And I expect that to fail miserably just like Sarah Palin did tonight.
And protecting fisheries in a year when it was so bad for so many.
In the most poorly-run livestream of all time....PELTOLA WINS!!!! BLUELASKA IS HERE!
Trump+10 seat in a special in a dem midterm, red wave my ass
Red wave? More like Red Splash!
Weird thing was this was not Lean R. Sabato moved it right to Safe R on 6/22. Probably an OK-5 2018 level of upset.
That's quite a miss. Even likely R would be embarrassing but Safe R is pretty inexcusable. I hope he doesn't just hand wave it away and say "it was weird, RCV and Palin and lack of polling" but rather I hope he reevaluates his methodology and how he incorporates uncertainty into his ratings.
A Democrat could run completely unopposed and Sabato, Wasserman, etc. would still find a way to rate the race a toss-up.
Fun fact: Mary Peltola was born almost 6 months after Don Young was first elected to Congress.
Mary Peltola will also be Alaskas first Native born representative
She hadn't even been born the last time someone other than Don Young held this seat!
Shut the fuck up I can't believe this happened! Holy fuck. Is this real? What is this feeling?
Winning brother. Now lets hope it can be replicated in November but this is hugeeeee!
You might be suffering from win exhaustion.