CorruptCheesecake@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 29 days agoRepublicans and Democrats in Secret Talks to Create a Third Partywww.thedailybeast.comexternal-linkmessage-square108fedilinkarrow-up1272arrow-down119cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1253arrow-down1external-linkRepublicans and Democrats in Secret Talks to Create a Third Partywww.thedailybeast.comCorruptCheesecake@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 29 days agomessage-square108fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareRagingSnarkasm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up59arrow-down1·29 days ago fix Which is why it won’t happen.
minus-squareORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up43·29 days agoAfter Mamdani, they’re scared as fuck of ranked choice elections.
minus-squareteawrecks@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-228 days agoThey 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!
minus-squareneukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·29 days agoEven though that wouldn’t have mattered in his case. He would have won the primary without the need for ranked choice.
minus-squareuuldika@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·29 days agoarguably ranked choice gave voters the confidence to pick the candidate that won an outright majority.
minus-squareCmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down1·29 days agoI live in uber-blue Oregon and the Dem politicians here rallied against it and got it defeated on the 2024 ballot.
minus-squareStovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·29 days agoSame 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.
minus-squarecrystalmerchant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·29 days agoWe have it for Portland though! And it’s working
minus-squareSoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·28 days agoFuck yeah it is! Hawaii has RCV for some, but not most, elections. Still a step in the right direction.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-227 days agoIf it’s working, they’ll get rid of it sooner or later.
minus-squareMontagge@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·29 days agoBullshit https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Measure_117,_Ranked-Choice_Voting_for_Federal_and_State_Elections_Measure_(2024)#Support
minus-squareCmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-229 days agoWhat’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?
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
Fuck yeah it is! Hawaii has RCV for some, but not most, elections. Still a step in the right direction.
If it’s working, they’ll get rid of it sooner or later.
Bullshit
https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Measure_117,_Ranked-Choice_Voting_for_Federal_and_State_Elections_Measure_(2024)#Support
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?