Found this in an article on a site called crowdwisdom.liv e

Why is Mitch McConnell pouring money into Alaska and not into Arizona? The equation is simple if Lisa Murkowski wins and Blake Masters loses, Mitch McConnell would still remain in charge of the GOP in the Senate. But if both Tshibaka and Masters win, Mitch McConnell’s political career is likely to end.

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The red wave will have to be strong for that to happen but it is possible. Masters has been closing in on Kelly and Tshibaka has been closing in on Murkowski.

People complain that Murkowski's good odds of winning are due to Alaska's ranked choice voting system. And it's true under a standard primary-general election system Tshibaka would win. But as I have always said I consider ranked choice, or "instant primary" as it's sometimes called, to be a legitimate way to do elections. The reason Murkowski may win is that Alaska is not nearly as red a state as it is made out to be, and the Democrats plus establishment Republican voters in the state are roughly equal to conservative or populist Republicans.

1 "Ranked-choice" ought to be called "rank choice." It stinks. 

2 It really does. It is designed to split the vote. That is all it's intended to do - allow the Establishment candidate to stay in office and make sure conservatives lose.

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