Eric Adams won by a smidgen, and yet 15% of ballots were invalid by the last round. Perhaps those 15% gave 0 fucks about Garcia vs Adams, or perhaps they were mistaken about how best to vote.
We really need proportional representation, but don't get me wrong IRV (instant-runoff voting) is still better than FPTP.
RCV seems like an attainable reform though, and better than the current system.
Which political problems in Italy do you think would go away if they switched to a less proportional system? Wouldn't the same divisions and deal-making just end up happening within parties rather than between parties?
* It gives small parties disproportionate amounts of power at times: "do what we say or we leave the coalition and the government falls".
* It gives parties disproportionate power, since they pick the candidates on their lists.
* I think have a person represent a geographic area and be beholden to it has some benefits.
Mostly, it's the government stability problem, as lots of fractious parties, some of which are personal projects rather than longer-term movements just don't offer much continuity.
(Not to suggest we shouldn't move on from the very flawed FPTP!)
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The US has several hundred political parties. New ones rarely move the needle on national campaigns even on the margins, and the exceptions invariably are founded by candidates that made major marks in recent-prior national campaigns as an independent without a party apparatus energizing their nee party drive, and still underperform the founder’s independent campaign before fading into irrelevance.
Yang might launch an Nth party, but it’ll make less difference in 2024 than Kanye West did in 2020. to
> A third party could be really beneficial in some areas where democrats dominate everything.
In a number of those places, nationally-minor parties (e.g., Greens) already outperform Republicans (and in some, they dominate local offices, though Democrats tend to win the State/Federal ones.)
Unfortunately the current Liberal PM promised "election reform" last election but didn't follow through. Now he might lose his minority gov.
I understand the appeal of ranked choice voting for citizens, but I don't see either the Liberals or Conservatives supporting it.
On the Liberal side, they will always have the idea of strategic voting, where they tell progressive voters "A vote for the NDP/Greens is a wasted vote that will get the Conservatives elected."
On the Conservative side, the next closest party is the Liberals. So their voter base will choose Liberals as their second option (Assuming the PPC is irrelevant).
> PPC is irrelevant
Let's just hope they stay that way, the guy in my (very liberal) riding is completely off the handle with antivax stuff on twitter.
For now, the PPC is irrelevant, but that may soon change. Only time will tell.
I don’t think the party screwed him at all. I think most Dems weren’t really in his camp anyway and the ones who were either gravitated towards Bernie or didn’t ultimately vote at all.
Who knows, if he runs as a third party candidate, I hope he does well. I'd probably give him my vote. The two incumbent parties trip over themselves to please entrenched interests and don't take the interest and plight of the people they represent seriously.
If people had taken Ross seriously we would not be in the economic mess we find ourselves with much of our manufacturing and know-how outsourced in return for some new financial products which only the wealthy benefit from. You go Andrew!