re: #53 Cheechako
The Republicansā 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.
I prognosticated here that Peltola would fail because R voters would have selected the other R candidate as their second choice. I am very happily surprised by this unexpected outcome; may it foretell similar success in November.
Of course, pessimist that I am, I am always anticipating that evil prevails but will, for now, savor this moment of victory.