Republicans and Democrats in Secret Talks to Create a Third Party
Republicans and Democrats in Secret Talks to Create a Third Party
Some “serious” names are involved in discussions to shake up U.S. politics, our must-read newsletter The Swamp reveals.
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A real simple fix would be ranked choice voting.
fix
Which is why it won't happen.
After Mamdani, they're scared as fuck of ranked choice elections.
They already were. The right has been sneaking bans on ranked choice voting into many red state legislations for many years now.
You may be thinking "how could they convince people to vote against ranked choice voting?!" By piggybacking on xenophobia of course!
Even though that wouldn't have mattered in his case. He would have won the primary without the need for ranked choice.
arguably ranked choice gave voters the confidence to pick the candidate that won an outright majority.
That's a fair point.
I live in uber-blue Oregon and the Dem politicians here rallied against it and got it defeated on the 2024 ballot.
Same here in Massachusetts back in 2020.
It's not necessarily a GOP vs Dem issue, it's dominant parties worried that giving voters more choice will weaken their control.
We have it for Portland though! And it's working
If it's working, they'll get rid of it sooner or later.
Fuck yeah it is! Hawaii has RCV for some, but not most, elections. Still a step in the right direction.
What's bullshit? 4 out of 18 Democratic state senators claimed to support it and 14 out of 36 Democratic state reps claimed to support it.
Only 3 Republican state legislators opposed it so Republicans must have been in favor of it too, right?
it's already been explicitly outlawed in several places.
Then we'll have to support it on a federal level too.
A voting system by itself will not unseat the two party system. You been proportional representation if you want lots of parties. I suggest Sequential Proportional Approval Voting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_proportional_approval_voting). Run a local referendums and work your way up.
These cats don’t actually want to fix anything.
Not entirely, but we should definitely have it