Posted on 11/15/2018 11:53:17 AM PST by SMGFan
Maine Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s loss under the state’s new ranked-choice voting system on Thursday likely means the end of New England Republicans in the House.
It’s the first time in over 100 years an incumbent has lost Maine’s 2nd District. Poliquin is still pursuing his legal challenge to the ranked-choice voting system in federal court, but Democrat Jared Golden won more than 50 percent after state election officials tabulated the ranked-choice votes on Thursday afternoon.
Poliquin narrowly led the Democrat on the first count, but since neither candidate received 50 percent of the vote, the state’s new ranked-choice voting system kicked in. A federal judge on Thursday morning denied a Poliquin lawsuit to seek an injunction against the tabulation of those votes.
After the last-place finisher was eliminated, Golden defeated Poliquin 50.5 percent to 49.5 percent, according to state election officials who declared Golden the winner.
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What this story reveals is that as more States adopt California type election systems, the Republican Party will no longer be a “National” party. Its all but disappeared from the West Coast and is now disappearing from the East Coast.
Demographics is destiny.
The GOP in Maine is incompetent on all levels. We need new leadership at Higgins street, the county and town committees need to be flushed out.
Poliquin won this race. This chicanery of 2nd ranked choice needs to be tossed out, period.
I draw from this that most Democrats just aren’t as incompetent as the Hildebeast.
Michael Moore has been out there pushing the ranked voting system for three decades for a reason.
You're going to see more of this kind of voting systems put in place, because it's a serious republican killer. The methods adopted by california to destroy the republican party have been very effective. You can bet that if these voting methods adversely affected democrat candidates, you'd see them thrown out by an activist judge in 30 seconds.
And we saw why.
Dem minority vote gettter wins because Dems hire a spoiler 3rd party or independent candidate to run who goes to the right of the GOP candidate in order to split the GOP vote.
The story that will eventually be told is just how super organized, and utterly corrupt, the Dem machine was in 2018.
From candidate recruitment to social media manipulate to out right fraud, the Dems use the billions their trust funds babies illegally donated to them to out organize the GOP and push an absolutely fraudulent campaign message to win.
Now the Democrats face the problem. Their Leftist clown posse at the top actually think they won on their radical Leftist poltical agenda not the lying and the fraud.
Somebody on the GOP side better get busy and get organizing or they are going to be a perpetual poltical minority party after the 2020 election
It does sound like more of a Democrat defensive play against all of those little splinter Leftist parties that keep popping up. Green Party, Working Families Party, Socialist Party, etc.
Same for New York, Party is a mess, patronage hacks, RINO establishment types, and Ed Cox, Nixon's son in law is a Democrat loving GOP chairman UGH
So is also financial and economic collapse. The blue states on the coasts and elsewhere are now in very serious financial trouble because of all the money spent on entitlements and related things. It is not going to be particularly pleasant for people who truly depend on those things funded by the public credit card presently.
Where in the world was the GOP before the election took place?! I think the runoff system is constitutional, but I don’t see how this system can be. Multiple choice balloting essentially?!?! ludicrous.
Smaller elections are more easy to steal than national ones.
Down goes Bruce ...
From my experiences the typical Maine GOP state committee member knows everything about everything, just ask them. And yet they’ve blown two general elections in a row, we should have done far better in 2016.
The county and town committee are even worse in terms of organization and work ethic. Is it really that difficult to knock on doors and talk to voters on a personal level? I’ve a great deal of bitterness towards these losers if you can’t already tell.
I have been active in local Republican politics, serving as a college adviser to an active college Republican club, delegate to the Republican caucus in 2016 (Trump delegate)
and election worker.
Several years ago, I began following the arguments for rank-choice voting. It was obvious that most of the advocates were far-left moonbat Demorats. I passed my concerns to several Republicans higher up the chain and there was little or no interest in fighting this issue.
I think we still have a party dominated by the Snow/Collins wing-get along go along be nice and never
hesitate to reach across the aisle.
RE: “So is also financial and economic collapse.”
Financial crisis and reset ahead.
Tick Tock
Everything is coming together Fast.
Yesterday, IMF just urged All Central banks to issue digital currency.
Just as The Economist predicted on 01/09/2018 - see details:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3706122/posts?q=1&;page=1#1
I live in this district.
The voters in Maine’s Second Congressional District voted against “Rank Choice Voting” when it was on the ballot (as a ballot initiative). So the voters in the more liberal First Congressional District....20% of the state’s land area...are determining how we vote in OUR district, the Second Congressional District, 80% of the state’s land area.
Congressman Bruce Poliquin won the initial vote on election day by 2,000 votes. There were second, third and fourth “ovals” to fill in on the ballot for your second, third and fourth choice.
Basically, two minor candidates....Tiffany Bond and William Hoar, whoever they are....determined the outcome. Together, these two nobodys received 8% of the vote. Anyone who voted for these two minor candidates basically received a chance to vote twice when they filled in the second oval for democrat Jared Golden, a liberal former Marine.
I only filled in one oval....for the GOP incumbent. I had no second choice that I liked. If I filled in the other ovals for the same candidate, my ballot would have been thrown out.
Rank Choice Voting was determined to be unconstitutional for state offices, like governor, but not for federal offices. It was used in the U.S. Senate race as well as the First CD, but those incumbents received more than 50% of the vote so Rank Choice did not kick in those cases.
Bruce Poliquin and his dem opponent, Jared Golden, each received about 46% of the vote.
So even though Bruce Poliquin received 2,000 more votes on Election Day, he lost the election.
Fortunately, Poliquin is suing, challenging the constitutionality of this so-called Rank Choice Voting law.
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