{"id":4821,"date":"2022-09-07T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2022-09-07T08:57:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:57:37","slug":"alaskas-election-results-do-not-discredit-final-four-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/alaskas-election-results-do-not-discredit-final-four-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska\u2019s election results do not discredit \u2018Final Four\u2019 voting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"494\" height=\"176\" data-attachment-id=\"3614\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/for-regulatory-reform-look-to-congress\/national-review-03-02-2017\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/National-Review-03-02-2017.png\" data-orig-size=\"494,176\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"National Review 03-02-2017\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/National-Review-03-02-2017-300x107.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/National-Review-03-02-2017.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/National-Review-03-02-2017.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/National-Review-03-02-2017.png 494w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/National-Review-03-02-2017-300x107.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Various conservatives are upset that Sarah Palin was defeated by Democrat Mary Peltola in the recent special election to fill Alaska\u2019s lone House seat. Some of them point out that the former governor and vice-presidential candidate got the most votes in the June primary, and lament that a majority of voters picked a Republican in the general election. They point out that a Republican held the seat for decades, and blame the state\u2019s newfangled \u201cfinal four\u201d election system, in which the top-two finishers in a nonpartisan \u201cjungle\u201d primary advance to a general election conducted using ranked-choice voting (RCV)&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/09\/alaskas-election-results-do-not-discredit-final-four-voting\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various conservatives are upset that Sarah Palin was defeated by Democrat Mary Peltola in the recent special election to fill Alaska\u2019s lone House seat. Some of them point out that the former governor and vice-presidential candidate got the most votes in the June primary, and lament that a majority of voters picked a Republican in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[225],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-4821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-reform","tag-national-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1fL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}