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Voters pick a candidate knowing that the candidate will have to play within a two party legislature. Third party legislators are shunned. Their bills get no tr
by CameronNemo 5y ago
Voters pick a candidate knowing that the candidate will have to play within a two party legislature.
Third party legislators are shunned. Their bills get no traction, and they get no committee assignments. If they are seriously divergent, the House could easily have them removed.
- tptacek 5y agoFurther evidence for this exists in the demise of ticket splitting: if you vote R at the top of the ticket, you're very likely to vote R the rest of the way down the ticket, regardless of who the downballot R's are. It wasn't always this way, but has been for some time.
- koolba 5y agoSome States even have a single box you can check to vote entirely for that party’s candidates, “straight ticket voting”. Texas removed it a few years back and it’s removal was challenged (and lost) by Democrats: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/30/texas-2020-election-staight-ticket-voting/ https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/30/texas-2020-election-...