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jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 weeks agoYou’d think it would be democrats worried about another Bernie Sanders coming along.
What is it the republicans are worried about with RCV?
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.”
The magas only gained their stranglehold on the party, despite being a minority, due to the neocons splitting their primary ballots.
They gained their stranglehold from 20+ years of systematic takeover. The Tea Party became MAGA. It didn’t happen over night
I never said it did. First past the post is what allowed that to happen.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.