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DB's avatar

The primary system guarantees candidates that are on the more extreme end of each party.

The candidate then has to pivot back towards the middle in the general election to get just enough voters to win the electoral votes.

The real problem is backing by the corrupt influences behind the scenes and then the payback after the elections.

Most of the European democracies are done by coalition governments where the winner is lucky to get 30% of the votes and then negotiates with enough of the losers to get a majority.

The end result is that in most elections , we are voting for someone that is the lesser of the evils, not someone that we can enthusiastically support.

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Susan Bachus's avatar

We need ranked choice voting! It works well in places like Ann Arbor, Michigan where it is already being used!

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