You’d think it would be democrats worried about another Bernie Sanders coming along.
What is it the republicans are worried about with RCV?
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LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Tl;dr
I was curious so I had to go look and see what states banned it. I was shocked, shocked I tell you to see the states that banned it are:
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Idaho
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Tennessee
West Virginia
Wyoming
jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The magas only gained their stranglehold on the party, despite being a minority, due to the neocons splitting their primary ballots.
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They gained their stranglehold from 20+ years of systematic takeover. The Tea Party became MAGA. It didn’t happen over night
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I never said it did. First past the post is what allowed that to happen.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The left wing vote is split, so the Republicans can win just by getting the largest number of votes with first-past-the-post.
LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I don’t know because they shouldn’t be.
Republicans like Senator Tom Cotton and Donald Trump have garnered headlines for stating their opposition to ranked choice voting after election results didn’t turn out exactly as they hoped. Their preferred candidates, Sarah Palin in the House and Kelly Tshibaka in the Senate, didn’t win. Both are Republicans. So, they claim (loudly) that RCV is biased against Republicans or “rigged.”
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
For those non-USians reading this, the pattern is: states which tend to vote Republican and thus have majority Republican governance. So called “red states”.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Does it also shock you that Iowa is on the short list to do the same?
LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Nope. I live in Minnesota and I’m well aware of what I.O.W.A. stands for.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m curious what you got for I.O.W.A. I hate this place, so I love anything that bags on us.
LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Idiots out wandering around. Not everybody in the state is an idiot but the ones that are, are out wandering around.
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’ve always known it as “Idiots Out Wandering Around”
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Why did you add like a hundred spaces in front of the list of states? That makes it a code block that requires tons of horizontal scrolling to read. I didn’t even recognize it as such at first.
You know Lemmy has spoiler syntax, right? If that’s what you were going for?