I know this is from two years ago, but you really need to research before you post. I live in Alaska. We've had a bipartisan coalition for years. It had nothing to do with Ranked Voting, which is highly unpopular in Alaska. A repeal vote is very narrowly winning (we'll find out in a couple of days), but that doesn't really deal with it honestly. The Vote No on the Repeal crowd spent over $12 million (mostly from Lower 48 dark money PACs) trying to get Alaskans to vote against repeal while the Repeal crowd spent $100,000 from Alaskan donors. So the narrow win is not an example of Alaskans being uncertain of how much they hate Ranked Voting, so much as it is a sign that money can really confuse people's vote.
What the bipartisan coalition does is take a consistent Republican majority in the Alaska Legislature and turns it into a Democratic-led coalition. The Alaskan people try to send more Republicans in hopes of needed reform, but if they don't have a strong majority, they form the coalition with the Democratics who then push their nonsense legislation. Alaska is $1 billion in the hole with the budget, stealing money from Alaska families, and there's nothing we can do about it because of this biapartisan coalition. It may look like a miracle to you, but to Alaskans it looks like a looming disaster.
Thanks for your thoughts. Though I know some Republican legislators who disagree with you, and are quite content with their coalition with moderate Democrats because they don't have to be held hostage in the GOP caucus by the MAGA nut job legislators. But hey, to each her or his own.
I know this is from two years ago, but you really need to research before you post. I live in Alaska. We've had a bipartisan coalition for years. It had nothing to do with Ranked Voting, which is highly unpopular in Alaska. A repeal vote is very narrowly winning (we'll find out in a couple of days), but that doesn't really deal with it honestly. The Vote No on the Repeal crowd spent over $12 million (mostly from Lower 48 dark money PACs) trying to get Alaskans to vote against repeal while the Repeal crowd spent $100,000 from Alaskan donors. So the narrow win is not an example of Alaskans being uncertain of how much they hate Ranked Voting, so much as it is a sign that money can really confuse people's vote.
What the bipartisan coalition does is take a consistent Republican majority in the Alaska Legislature and turns it into a Democratic-led coalition. The Alaskan people try to send more Republicans in hopes of needed reform, but if they don't have a strong majority, they form the coalition with the Democratics who then push their nonsense legislation. Alaska is $1 billion in the hole with the budget, stealing money from Alaska families, and there's nothing we can do about it because of this biapartisan coalition. It may look like a miracle to you, but to Alaskans it looks like a looming disaster.
Thanks for your thoughts. Though I know some Republican legislators who disagree with you, and are quite content with their coalition with moderate Democrats because they don't have to be held hostage in the GOP caucus by the MAGA nut job legislators. But hey, to each her or his own.