she, the democrat won enough of nick begich's second choices of the voters who picked begich, enoughcond choice over sarah palin. why? what else is playing into this? obviously the palin factor. what was a component in this campaign that her opponents were using against her was that sarah palin left the governor's office back in 2009, you'll remember. she kind of walked out on alaska, sort of the frame put around her. that's part of the baggage she carries with sort of the overall national baggage of the palin persona that still lingers for her. and it is peltola who makes history now. not only as the first democrat in all these years that you mentioned, first native alaskan, first woman to go and serve in this congressional seat for alaska, all of those history-making moments there will occur now. for this short period of time, from now through january. >> it is worth noting, again, when you dig into the numbers about half the people who voted for republican nick begich either listed the democrat as their second choice or no second choice at all. that is interesting and a problem fo

the begich didn't just go to sarah palin.nk of his voters who actually made peltola their second choice. >> wow. >> able to pick up some votes and i think key to the whole thing ended up being, there were 11,000 people who voted for begich, other republican in the first round, who did not put on their ballot a second choice. called those exhausted ballots. don't get counted in the send round. you could debate why that was. maybe just didn't want to vote for a democrat but didn't like palin, kind of shrugged, left, just voted for begich, but 11,000 folks who voted for the other republican just didn't vote in the second round. a ingredients as well. first democrat to win and female in alaska. >> really good stuff. >>> and obviously the sigh i made was not about you. intending midterms, just two months away and exhaustive race ahead of us. you particularly, sir. thank you, steve. >> thanks. >>> and as i mentioned from critical midterm elections helping to determine who will control the u.s. house. profiling one race a day here o

i reload. >> reporter: come november, it's game on, as palin and begich will challenge her again for a full two-year term. >> working on momentum we gaine. we have shown that it is doable. >> reporter: hedging her bets for a repeat return to washington. nikole killion, cbs news, the capitol. >>> next on the "cbs weekend news" remembering an academy award winner who terrified movie audiences everywhere. >>> a gian today. his playing described as spiritual. he explored and expanded the boundaries of his sax foerns notably with john coltrane in the '60s. he died in los angeles. he was 81. >>> today actress luiz fletcher is remembered for playing one. big screen's most villainous characters ever. >> mr. chess wick, you sit down! >> reporter: nurse ratchet's in 1975's "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" she humiliated and tortured patients giving nurses a bad name everywhere. she won a best actress for the role pap daughter of deaf parents, her acceptance speech was also memorable f. you're ux kuz me, for my mother and my father, i want to say thank you for teaching me to have a dream. you

there you see the other, guy republican nick begich, who made a strong showing.thing a bit of bitter feud between the republicans in the race. in fact, do you know this? palin's former in laws even through begich a party instead of someone directs not a lot. and because alaska discharging rank choice voting, when voters rank their -- threshold, their vote instead goes to the second right candidate and so on. you would expect a lot of baggage voters to put pale in number two, by now than f did because there were some bad blood because they didn't like sarah palin. and so because enough republicans don't like sarah palin mary peltola, huge upset win for the democratic party. a win that has to buoy the spirits of democrats everywhere, in the midterms, it's not quite scott brown wins ted kennedy's seat in the reverse but it's a little in the ballpark. we will see. this comes on the heels of a democratic victory in new york 's 19th last week. democrats flip to see which had been republican called for almost 50 years tonight, in a red state special election. another si

so, the race went into an instant runoff election, in which the last place candidate, nick begich, wasixed, and these voters were re-distributed to peltola or palin. in case you are wondering, yes, alaska will still use the rank choice voting process in -- joining me now is mark leibovitz, that writer for the atlantic and author of, thank you for your servitude, down from washington and the price of submission. this year seems like the prices of mission has been all for in this race. mark leibovich, sarah palin, i must read her statement after her loss this evening. ranked choice voting was sold as the way to make elections better reflect the will of the people. as alaska -- and america -- now sees, the exact opposite is true. then we are disappointed in this outcome, alaskans on the last one who will have a retreat. instead, i'm going to reload. because what would a concession statement be without a gun metaphor? mark, why do you think sarah palin lost tonight? >> well, i think she comes with a lot of baggage, obviously. i think there is a larger conversation about whether this speaks

there was a lot of conversation that perhaps the begich versus palin turned a lot of people off to bothlted in either them not choosing a second choice or, you know, sending their vote to peltola. that's something voters tell us they want. they want less negative campaigning. obviously the track record is that voters respond to negative campaigning. but that might not be true in this kind of situation. p. >> it's a fascinating place to watch. i think we should all go visit. maybe we should take the show up there before we get to november. when we come back next more of the skrags about abortion including a key state r&r democrats thought they could put it on the ballot but as of today they have failed. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health. versus 16 grams in ensure high protein. boost® high protein also hahas key nutrients for immune support. boost® h high protein. super emma just about sleeps in her cape. but when we realized she was battling sensitive skin, we switched to tide hygenic clean free. it's gentle on r skin and out-cleans o

half of the people who voted for the other republican in this race, nick begich, did not list palin asetty remarkable. >> yes, it is, and i think what it says -- here is one interpretation, it says that sarah palin has appeal, but it's not broad, right? she appeals to a very narrow band of the constituency in the state in which she was the governor. ranked choice voting is intended to award candidates who are not the choice of a narrow band on the right or left but have broad appeal. there inn it says your first choice is x but tell us your second choice, y, and that factors into the final tabulation. i think we have to also point out that congresswoman elect peltola won in the first round and in the second round, so she continued that momentum that she had, but it was that second round and who is the second choice that put her over the top. >> looking now at the fetterman/oz senate race that you are paying such close attention to there in pennsylvania it's a role reversal because you have fetterman now not doing debates, he is recovering from a stroke, lots of questions about his heal

sarah palin, nick begich, mary matola made it through the primary. they will be in the ballot. people will have this think how they are going to vote, how they will rank folkses but you find people put effort into a campaign are not necessarily interested in dropping. neil: governor, keep us posted what progress you're making. you and 23 other governors to put an end to the president's plan to forgive some of these students loans. draw your attention to the corner of wall and broad, dow jones industrials skid. mixed batch of economic news the gist of it, good enough to keep the fed ral reserve to keep hiking rates. maybe a full percentage point. even though that likelihood dipped tad. there are pockets of weakness there that give you the balance maybe have you thinking stocks should be up today. that is so far not happening. we have the aways to go. the read on this apparent rail strike will not happen now, come to an agreement. the is are not dotted or ts crossed or everyone involved writing off on this but the labor secretary is happy, and he is here after this. ♪. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

is the first alaska native to serve in the house the two women, plus another republican, nicholas begichar term in the november general election we welcome in reasons priebus. communications director. executive director of the georgetown institute of politics mo owe levy. gentlemen, thanks for being here we like to start this segment out with trying to find something that you agree on. i know you didn't talk before hand, mo, if you were to guess where you guys would be where would you be? i think reince is someone who actually cares about the democratic process and the health of our republic. and i think he and i would both agree that when both parties are good and when both parties are strong, it is better for our politics generally. >> bret: reince, there is a new poll out in quinnipiac, it's the question is the nation's democracy in danger of collapse? democrats and republicans at 69% in this poll and it reads this way. in a rare moment of agreement, americans coalesce around an ominous concern democracy, the bedrock of the nation is in peril, according to quinnipiac. i guess for diff

begich's vote when they did the second round of counting went to you. how do you figure that?i think alaskans just tend to vote for the person and not necessarily the party affiliation. i think that folks who are interested in public policy and making sure our economy stays on track and we are doing things to try to manage our inflation and logistics supply chain issues and things like that did find me appealing. i did serve 10 years in the state house of representatives. i served in a very bipartisan way. i was instrumental in reestablishing what we refer to as our bush caucus, and that is really 10 house districts representing rural districts. typically, our caucus of 10 had five republicans and five democrats, and although i was in the minority, the 10 years i learned -- i served in the legislature, i was an effective legislator. i was able to bring home capital projects and pass legislation and bring home coalitions to get alaska moving forward. >> you would be the first native alaskan to serve. i noticed that you said last night -- and i'm quoting -- you said you are much

sarah palin at 41% and then begich 28%. not a single candidate won. and an instant runoff election in which the last place candidate was nix and the votes were redistributed to paltola or palin and in case you were wondering, palin will still use the ranked choice voting process in november's midterm elections. joining me is mark liebowitz, staff writer for "the atlantic" and author of "thank you for your servitude," and this is maybe the price of submission has been all for it in this race. what sarah palin, i must read her statement, after her loss this evening, ranked choice voting was sold as a way to make elections better, reflect the will of the people. as alaska, and america, now sees, the exact opposite is true. though we're disappointed in thissous come, alaskans know i'm the last one who will ever retreat. instead, i'm going to reload. because what would be a confession statement be without a gun metaphor? >> mark do y-do -- why do you think sarah palin lost tonight? >> i think there is a lot of baggage and there is a larger conversation whe

alaska where there's going to be a redo of the election in november, and it's going to be, bell -- begichto be the first choice, but if they want to be a second choice, he says put in palin. and the republican party is saying, hey, rank the red, rank your republicans. and so that's the strategy. kennedy: is that a better strategy? >> it's about pulling people in. yeah, it's a better strategy because you're pulling people in. negative campaigning, hit pieces push people out. it's a zero sum game. is so rank choice voting is a whole few ball game. kennedy: it's really interesting, but why isn't it more uniformly applied? it's kind of confusing in that sometimes you have it during primary season and other times you have it just for federal candidates both, you know, like in new york city, why do we have it here all the time? >> well, they had it because that was the way the state or the city decided to have it elections. they voted on having it just in nominating primaries. and, you know, i hope it, the whole city council -- the new york city council in the '30s and '40s was elected by rank

after pulling off a stunning and historic upset defeating republican sarah palin and nick begich in thection. all three will be facing off again in november's midterms. this time, for a full two-year term. joining me now is congresswoman-elect mary peltola of alaska. i cancon gratulate you on air as i had a chance to do off air. it's exciting. you get sworn in tomorrow. what time? >> 6:30 eastern standard time, 10:30 p.m. alaska time. >> that is exciting. i can imagine -- i did ask you, i will ask you again, have you picked out an outfit. i know this is completely shallow. >> it is important because that seems to be what people talk about most. but yes, i do have a dress that i have worn. i wore it to my son's boot camp graduation from the coast guard. it's nothing new but it's comfortable. it's going to be a long day, so comfort is the key. >> we were talking about jesse ross, he won the week after you won, and it is exciting for indigenous people who are the first people of this nation, have so little representation in presidential administrations, there's one person. and in congress.