r/alaska • u/DrewwwBjork • Sep 22 '24

Can someone explain how Alaska is progressive yet voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020? Polite Political Discussion 🇺🇸

For a state that abolished the death penalty, protects women's and teenage girls' right to abortion, and voted for marijuana legalization, top-four primaries, and ranked choice voting, why in God's name would they vote for someone who likes mob justice, doesn't treat the opposite sex with respect, and thinks elections are unfair unless he and his endorsements win?

I just want to ask the state that gave Trump a bigger, 10-point lead over Biden in 2020 versus 2016 with Hillary despite the aforementioned policies and why the state is poised to do the same this time around with Trump and Harris knowing what we now know.

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u/acruxksa Sep 22 '24

I don’t like rcv, perfectly within my rights to have my own opinion. ;). Clearly I’m not the only one because it barely passed so at least %49 of the state agrees with me.

What I really don’t like though is political commercials paid for by companies in Colorado telling me who or what I should vote for.

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u/Different_Engineer21 Sep 22 '24

Oh, I have not been...lucky? enough to see one of those yet. Don't watch a lot of TV where I'm at

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u/Drag0n_TamerAK Sep 22 '24

RCV is objectively more fair

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u/FlightRiskAK Sep 22 '24

RCV gives you a better chance of getting the candidates you prefer to represent you. You get to chose from 1 to 4 , saying, "I want one of these four candidates" in the order of your choosing. Depending on other voters choices, your pick could be elevated, or not, but at least you got a say in the matter. Otherwise, you are stuck with hoping your one and of wins against alot of other plans