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And what if the GOP wins with ranked choice voting too? Cause that's the crux of the liberal media

• antifa 4y ago
  Conservatives will still win conservative districts. Ranked choice will allow everyone to confidently enter their preferences accurately and the winner will be the mutually least hated candidate.
  • throwaway81523 4y ago
    > winner will be the mutually least hated candidate. That is not necessarily desirable though. We already have that a lot of the time (not always), and it seems to systemically produce a race to the bottom.
    • antifa 4y ago
      > We already have that a lot of the time Having it under FPTP instead of ranked choice is fundamentally different, so we really don't have it at all as far as the FPTP vs RCV debate goes.
      • throwaway81523 4y ago
        In the US, we don't have an FPTP system in practice. We have a duopoly of the two major parties, that nominate candidates through a combination of voter preferences and donor/establishment preferences (controlling funding and ballot access). The nomination process tends "electable" candidates, who could also be called insufficiently hated.