Can I ask why Troy Jackson is such a dominating suggestion at least on reddit circles? He wasn’t one of the other 3 candidates in the Maine Senate Primary (Janet Mills, David Costello, Andrea LaFlamme), shouldn’t it be one of them? Heck, the whole thing was done Ranked-Choice-Voting, and I’ve literally heard people describe this situation as one of the benefits of RCV, you can rerun the primary and see who would have won without Platner(probably either Costello or Mills). Why aren’t we taking advantage of that intended feature in the scenario it’s meant for? And if you do for whatever reason want to pick someone from the Governor Primary, why is everyone defaulting to the third place guy? Why not second place Nirav Shah who outpreformed Troy? Or heck, fourth place Shenna Bellows if you wanna ignore the top preformers. I don’t get it.
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Just the way Jackson took all of two seconds to go from:
He should drop out
To
If no one else will, I can… He should drop out and it should be handed to me!
Makes me think it shouldn’t be him
Dude saw a personal opportunity and lept at it. If he cared he wouldn’t have thrown his own name out after losing his own primary.
He’d promote someone who came in second in the primary.
His concern isn’t a Dem beating Susan Collins, it’s amassing personal power.
He’s term limited from his old spot and lost at Governor, he’s just out job hunting. And that’s not what we need in politicians these days
Platner endorsed Jackson for governor. At least in the governor’s race he was the one who was most closely aligned with his politics.
Also, Shah likely wouldn’t have beaten him. Jackson, the winner, and one other candidate all encouraged their supporters to rank the other candidates in the group before anyone else. Likely to box Shah out. 2nd place in final rankings doesn’t mean you’d beat every other candidate who was eliminated.
As to the ranked choice Senate primary, it wasn’t really much of a contest so it’s likely people didn’t take ranking seriously. There were only 3 real candidates (write-ins aren’t serious), one effectively dropped out and the other wasn’t ever competitive. By the time of the election Platner was a lock.
That’d be like going with the guy Cuomo endorsed after he resigned in shame. Just use the RCV results, minus Platner.
Uh, when Cuomo resigned in shame his self-selected lieutenant governor took over. She got reelected and is still running the state.
That’s just the line of succession in New York. She won the primary for Lt governor whoch is why she shared a ticket with Cuomo. Quote of hers taken from her wikipedia page:
Of her time as lieutenant governor and relationship with Cuomo, Hochul has said: “I think it’s very clear that the governor and I have not been close.”
It feels weird to do a RCV primary, have exactly one of the situations RCV is built to handle that people have pointed out as a potential advantage, and then…not use it for that.
This is not the situation RCV handles. RCV handles if your vote doesn’t get a majority. It’s never about eliminating the top vote getter or selecting a successor.
If the scandal broke before the election people could have changed their votes and if they didn’t would have paid attention and ranked lower options, but it didn’t.
It’s not the main purpose, but I have heard people say you COULD use it this way and offered it as a future option to prevent Biden style situations
Because, at least on the surface, he is the most compatible with WHY people wanted Platner. Their platforms are a lot more similar than Mills or Shah.
Also, you can’t beat swapping one manly white dude for another manly white dude.
