The ranked-choice process was slow; you should have seen all the mad-face emoji on the New Mexican's Facebook live video feed last night. If you squinted, it looked for all the world like someone was throwing oranges across the room.

What do you need to know in the face of all this crowing? The winner of any contest needed to have over 50%. In the first 'round' - the straight-up conventional election - Webber got 39% of the vote. After the fourth round of eliminations (each round eliminates the lowest-scoring candidate), he had 66%.

Time will tell whether this is truly the voice of the people. It certainly points to interesting downticket strategies for the parties. Some didn't like the system, and allegedly only wrote in single vote choices. I wonder how that ranked-vote-suspicion played out across constituencies.