How can this be? Alaska votes Senate: 90% Republican, House: 51%
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I am not confused about why the votes are split. (I understand ranked choice voting). What I don't get is how there can be 90% of votes go republican in the Senate race, but only 51% go Republican in the house.
I mean the same voters voted in both cases, and its unlikely that they prioritize republicans for the senate, but prioritize a democrat for the house...
As to your specific question, I agree Rank Choice is not the issue. The simple answer is that at least 40 percent of Lisa Murkowski's 43 percent consider her to be a more dependable and electable democrat than Patricia Chesbro. After all, she was continued in office 6 years ago by democrats as a write in candidate after being defeated in the republican primary and has represented them quite well.
Also, everybody, don't worry about the split republican vote. Due to ranked choice voting, the red votes will end up adding together on one of the red candidates
No it will not, unless voters choose the other candidate as their second choice. Many Alaskans, disgusted with the ranked choice voting system, either chose the same person all the way across, or made their choice and left the rest of the ovals blank. In both of those cases, no added votes would go to the other candidate.
That's a good point. I wonder how strong the effect is you've mentioned. We'll see