I do think a Biden presidency will be better than 4 more years of Trump would have been. That's not even a question.
I don't think both are corrupt to the core, but both could stand to fracture. The GOP needs it more than the Dems do, but the Dems could stand to break up as well. RCV will allow that to happen. Not overnight, but it would allow them to fracture and/or give existing 3rd parties a chance to really challenge them. Either way, the duopoly is severely weakened and the ossification we've seen is allowed to break up and evolve again.
If Republicans can cut out the cancer of Trumpism, “corporatist” Republicans from the northeast and midwest might be able to ally with “quasi-libertarian” Republicans from the west and save the GOP. But that's a big if.
Ranked choice voting is a good option, but it does tend to slow things down in terms of getting results. A few cities in Minnesota use it for local races, but I don’t think any of them are yet using it for the Presidential race.
I believe Maine just used it for presidential. (There was some back and forth in the courts on that; I forget where that landed.) They're the furthest ahead with it.
5 cities just passed RCV themselves last week. That brings the number of significant cities up to about 15, I think, including San Francisco, New York, Boulder, and Minneapolis, among others.
RCV takes a little bit longer to count, but... really, that's the least of our worries at this point. :-)
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Do you really think a Biden presidency would make anything better in the US?
I think both parties need to be fractured. Both are corrupt to the core.
I do think a Biden presidency will be better than 4 more years of Trump would have been. That's not even a question.
I don't think both are corrupt to the core, but both could stand to fracture. The GOP needs it more than the Dems do, but the Dems could stand to break up as well. RCV will allow that to happen. Not overnight, but it would allow them to fracture and/or give existing 3rd parties a chance to really challenge them. Either way, the duopoly is severely weakened and the ossification we've seen is allowed to break up and evolve again.
If Republicans can cut out the cancer of Trumpism, “corporatist” Republicans from the northeast and midwest might be able to ally with “quasi-libertarian” Republicans from the west and save the GOP. But that's a big if.
Ranked choice voting is a good option, but it does tend to slow things down in terms of getting results. A few cities in Minnesota use it for local races, but I don’t think any of them are yet using it for the Presidential race.
I believe Maine just used it for presidential. (There was some back and forth in the courts on that; I forget where that landed.) They're the furthest ahead with it.
5 cities just passed RCV themselves last week. That brings the number of significant cities up to about 15, I think, including San Francisco, New York, Boulder, and Minneapolis, among others.
RCV takes a little bit longer to count, but... really, that's the least of our worries at this point. :-)
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