I still intend to vote for Senator Murkowski next time she’s up for reelection, if she tries for another term. Whether or not she’s still a Republican, or decides to be an Independent or Democrat; although I do think she would do better as a Republican or Independent. The first time I ever voted was in her write-in election and she won a…
I still intend to vote for Senator Murkowski next time she’s up for reelection, if she tries for another term. Whether or not she’s still a Republican, or decides to be an Independent or Democrat; although I do think she would do better as a Republican or Independent. The first time I ever voted was in her write-in election and she won as an Independent. We started ranked choice voting after that; I don’t know why everyone’s so confused by ranked choice, it’s not like you need to list every single candidate if you don’t want to, you can just put down one, or two, or four out of six (random number chosen for illustrative reasons). I suppose some people are easily confused and aren’t able to adapt to change. Senator Murkowski has won as an Independent before, she can win as one again. I’m not as sure she would win as a Republican. The Republicans here keep trying to get rid of ranked choice, probably because they can’t vote her out while we have it.
The other two definitely won’t get my vote. I really, desperately want the Democrats to make a serious play for those seats, having at least one Representative from a party that isn’t fascist would be nice. We’ve elected plenty of Democrats in the past. I don’t know why Democrats are so easily intimidated, it seems like they’ve given up before even trying; that kind of attitude screams loser. Honestly, Trump is a literal loser and that didn’t stop him from trying again, which is probably why he won.
“King” Trump the Loser should be his moniker. Assuming Democrats stop trying to take it for themselves.
Australia moved from 'first past the post' to preferential voting in 1918, and introduced compulsory voting in 1924. Not perfect, but has worked reasonably well since then.
I am also baffled why everyone says voters are or will be SO confused by ranked choice voting. People can be surprisingly dumb or foolish but... it's not hard to make a ranked list? People do it all the time!
The people who say voters will be confused are, by and large, the people who want to prevent ranked choice voting from being implemented. It's one of several bogus arguments they offer.
I still intend to vote for Senator Murkowski next time she’s up for reelection, if she tries for another term. Whether or not she’s still a Republican, or decides to be an Independent or Democrat; although I do think she would do better as a Republican or Independent. The first time I ever voted was in her write-in election and she won as an Independent. We started ranked choice voting after that; I don’t know why everyone’s so confused by ranked choice, it’s not like you need to list every single candidate if you don’t want to, you can just put down one, or two, or four out of six (random number chosen for illustrative reasons). I suppose some people are easily confused and aren’t able to adapt to change. Senator Murkowski has won as an Independent before, she can win as one again. I’m not as sure she would win as a Republican. The Republicans here keep trying to get rid of ranked choice, probably because they can’t vote her out while we have it.
The other two definitely won’t get my vote. I really, desperately want the Democrats to make a serious play for those seats, having at least one Representative from a party that isn’t fascist would be nice. We’ve elected plenty of Democrats in the past. I don’t know why Democrats are so easily intimidated, it seems like they’ve given up before even trying; that kind of attitude screams loser. Honestly, Trump is a literal loser and that didn’t stop him from trying again, which is probably why he won.
“King” Trump the Loser should be his moniker. Assuming Democrats stop trying to take it for themselves.
I'd love to try ranked choice voting!
Australia moved from 'first past the post' to preferential voting in 1918, and introduced compulsory voting in 1924. Not perfect, but has worked reasonably well since then.
I am also baffled why everyone says voters are or will be SO confused by ranked choice voting. People can be surprisingly dumb or foolish but... it's not hard to make a ranked list? People do it all the time!
The people who say voters will be confused are, by and large, the people who want to prevent ranked choice voting from being implemented. It's one of several bogus arguments they offer.