Alaska's G.O.P. Proxy War | The New Yorker
The state’s neck-and-neck Senate race features two Republicans who represent drastically different visions for the future of the Party.
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The state’s neck-and-neck Senate race features two Republicans who represent drastically different visions for the future of the Party.
The election was for a seat left vacant after the death of Congressman Don Young, and the term has only a few months remaining.
Alaskans voted in 2020 to adopt ranked choice voting, a method by which voters rank their preferences of candidates.
Alaskans voted in 2020 to adopt ranked choice voting, a process by which voters rank candidates in order of preference rather than choosing just one.
Playing in other party’s primary or backing an independent candidate are two possible options.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— In an increasingly polarized nation, one party often dominates in a state while the other is seemingly consigned to permanent irrelevance. In such states, primary voters for the dominant party are able to flex their muscles to nominate a comparatively extreme candidate, who is all but assured a victory in the general election.— One creative way that minority parties in at least some of these states could fight back is to stop running candidates for major offices lik...