New England Republicans have one more chance to pick up a seat in the U.S. Congress out of the region’s otherwise across-the-board losses to Democrats.
The final hope comes from a tight race in Maine between incumbent Jared Golden and conservative challenger Bruce Poliquin, slated to be decided next week by ranked-choice voting (RCV), a growing trend across the United States in picking party candidates and general election winners in local, state, and federal elections.
“Ranked-choice voting gives voters more freedom over their voting and allows them to vote on their honest preferences, instead of voting strategically,” Deb Otis, research director of FairVote, told The Epoch Times….