Palin loss sets off alarm bells for GOP strategists: report

[Demovictory9]

https://www.rawstory.com/sarah-palin-donald-trump/

Sarah Palin's surprise loss to fill the U.S. House seat representing Alaska this past week has set off alarm bells among Republican Party strategists who are looking beyond the state's ranked-choice election for clues to her collapse in the state where she briefly served as governor.

According to a report from Politico's David Siders, a close look at how Alaskans voted -- particularly their refusal to list Palin as their second choice after fellow Republican Nick Begich III -- is a sign that being a Trump Republican not only doesn't carry the day but also may be a hindrance.

As Siders wrote, "In an election that could spell disaster for pro-Donald Trump hard-liners in states across the midterm electoral map, only about half of the 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."

Adding, "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," he continued, "The problem for the GOP is that Palin is far from the only lightning rod on the ballot this fall. In swing states like Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan, pro-Trump Republicans who beat more establishment-minded Republicans in primaries will now be confronting a general election electorate that rebuked Trump in 2020."



According to pollster Ivan Moore of Alaska Survey Research, the GOP leadership should have read the room when a poll showed she only had a 31 percent favorability rating which Moore claimed clearly showed she was "unelectable."

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Maybe They Figured She'd Hold True To Form...

...and quit again, giving the Rs only one choice.
After all, quitting is what she does.

[lpbk2713]

2. Palin is an idiot.

All they have to do is keep running idiots.

Which, of course, is what they will do.

[Sky Jewels]

3. Gee, if only they hadn't doubled down on Trump and Trumpism after he tried to overthrow

democracy, install himself as dictator for life, and revealed our most sensitive secrets to our enemies. Who would have known that it wasn't a smart strategy to keep their wagon hitched to him?

[MagickMuffin]

4. Musick to my ears

a poll showed she only had a 31 percent favorability rating which Moore claimed clearly showed she was "unelectable."

You BETCHA!

[durablend]

5. Tots and pears

Ah those MAGA tears so sweet

[PortTack]

6. So so happy to see her knocked out..she's dead in the water now

Hopefully this is a bellwether for others like her, especially mtg, boobert and stefanik

[stopdiggin]

7. I really hope this is correct

but in my opinion it's reaching. Here's the take aways I see here. 1) the GOP garnered over 60% of the votes (a very easy win), and 2) Sarah Palin wins any sort of conventional primary in her party, by a reasonably comfortable margin. If this is 'people turning away' - well perhaps a (very tiny) beginning - but there's still a lot more of them voting for, rather than against.

Palin's loss was all about ranked choice. And that's pretty much the whole show.