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Need more options. Ranked Choice Voting.
We tried in Oregon. The real problem is that both Democrat establishment and Republican establishment hate RCV because it diminishes their power. It may be time for progressives to separate from Dems a bit more at local and state levels. Look at Osborn in NE
RCV was also on the ballot in Colorado, but for some reason they bundled it with a "jungle primary" for governor and a bunch of other seats, where the four choices on the ballot for governor in the general election would be the top four from the ranked choice primaries, regardless of party (so you could end up with four options from the same party in theory). The latter addition was pretty unpopular with both parties, who put out tons of messaging against it and especially conflated it with RCV. It got voted down with a significant margin.
I'm not opposed to either measure, but I'm really struggling to understand why they rolled the two together into one ballot initiative instead of separating it. Alas, I'm just a lowly voter not privy to such advanced political reasoning. Fortunately most of Colorado's other ballot initiatives went well, at least according to my preferences.
It was backed and bankrolled by some local rich fuck and "adjusted" to benefit the rich ofc. It's good that it failed IMO, unsure what Oregon's deal about it was though
Jungle primaries are great to reduce the power of nonmajority parties. If you have a primary with 4 Democrat and 4 Republican candidates, the winners will tend to be the 4 from the majority party as all votes get split relatively even. This leaves the minority party with no candidate in the general election.
Some counties in Oregon use RCV or Star for some elections. It’s progress.
But I agree, nobody wants to love power on either side so there’s no support. Dems are not our saviors. Up to the people.
I feel like progressives separating from Dems just gave us another Trump admin.