Thankfully, Alaska has adopted ranked choice voting and pick-one open primaries, and there is a large slate of gubernatorial candidates for Alaskans to choose from in the primary on Aug. 18.
It would be hard to imagine having essentially only two hyperpartisan candidates to choose from in the former closed primary system, like a hyper-Trumpian candidate and a hyper-Democratic candidate, even if a hyper-Democratic candidate might be difficult to define post-2024. Not only would
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