re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth

also helped that Peltola’s first ballot total was larger than either Begich or Palin, so Palin had a lot of ground to make up, which she could not do because not enough liked her enough for second choice

The Republicans’ also heavily advertised for R voters to NOT make Peltola their second choice as they knew doing so would hurt either R candidate when adding in the second vote numbers.