Crazy idea. What if the Democratic primary was actually a democracy? Let the candidate who wins the most states with an electoral weight be the candidate.
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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Let all the states vote before declaring a winner. I've never voted in a primary with more than one active candidate.
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Good news!
The voting members of the DNC agreed with you 8 months ago when they elected a chair with a decade long track record of fair primaries and then putting the full weight of the party behind every candidate in the general.
We're also very unlikely to see a push to consolidate behind a "winner" after only a handful of states vote.
I don't think the current DNC chair has ever weighed in on any primary. Even for Mamdani he waited till the day after the primary. And Martin loves Mamdani almost as much as trump does.
So we can expect neutrality till the very last state reports their primary result.
So they plan to kill super delegates?
Super delegates only vote in the second round. That's been on the books since 2020. Sure, it doesn't remove them entirely, but you just need to have the majority of pledged delegates for it to not matter.
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Interesting given that in the recent past the Democratic Party opposed implementing RCV 👀.
I'm still betting they oppose it. They're just not in power right now. The second they have a majority again all RCV initiative stops. Maybe a state or two flips over to RCV in the mean time if we're lucky.
Yeah, they know the progressives will beat them if they allow rcv
I'll believe it when I see it.
Democrats will ratfuck progressives under any ruleset.
Just gotta make the dumbasses in the Pedo Party to think Ranked Choice is somehow good for them, or that they came up with the idea.
Send mayor Mamdani to the White House again. He did well in that cesspool last time.
It is good for the voters.
Just not the establishment politicians clothing to their power and wealth
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STAR voting is simpler and
peer-reviewed, topping the charts in all studies of accuracy and representativeness.
Star is way worse at preventing gaming the system because if your favorite candidate is one of the less likely to win, mathematically you shouldn't rank anyone else even 1 star or your vote may be the reason your most favorite candidate loses by ensuring someone less favorable to you wins. If you made me vote on STAR id literally never rank an establishment candidate ever, my ballot wouldn't change at all from how it looks now and neither would any of the people who want smaller candidates to win and know how math works.
I used to run then elections in the organization I was a part of. Just use Scottish RCV it's better and with plenty real world tests and results.
I am having trouble understanding the math you are describing. How has the system been gamed if you voted this way? It sounds like you only play yourself, if you would discard your second-choice in the hopes that your first wins. The system is still going to favor consensus.
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I mean, Ken was for it when he ran Minnesota...
I don't know why he wouldn't be for it now.
It would only work if they converted to a national vote, instead of state by state elections with individual ranked choice votes.
Both. We need to outloaw fptp. Usually these things happen by States first, then its forced on the holdouts by the feds
That's how we got woman the right to vote.
Oh good, let’s focus on voting and not things like gerrymandering and Citizens United. Or even the Electoral College. The candidate with the most money usually wins, so even if you change how voting works odds are it’s still gonna be a republican or democrat frontrunner.
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Does Israel approve? Doubt it because then they’d have to buy more politicians from new political parties with our tax dollars