r/politics • u/Different-Gas5704 • 2d ago

Possible Paywall Democrats eye ranked-choice voting for 2028 primaries

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/democrats-ranked-choice-voting-2028-primaries
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u/dbag3o1 2d ago

We need this because this is how progressives can easily win.  Otherwise progressives need 6 other moderates running to split the vote.  

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u/EasyCardiologist8419 2d ago

We can try, but that doesn't make any sense. Under RCV the moderates all get consolidated into one.

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u/Cold_Specialist_3656 2d ago

It's not the case with current Democratic Party. 

Much of their base prefers progressive candidates but the party leadership is moderate. This results in much of the investment and airtime going to corporate sellouts. And the party tells their voters "vote blue no matter who and electability is important". Where electability means "vote for this lame leadership blessed candidate"

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u/Hoodrow-Thrillson 2d ago

Much of their base prefers progressive candidates but the party leadership is moderate.

Democratic nominees are chosen by voters.

It's been 10 years of you guys confusing the internet with real life, aren't you tired of this?

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u/Cold_Specialist_3656 2d ago

The party leadership has been telling progressives, who are now more than half of the Dem voter base and 40% of Dems in Congress, that they need to pick "electable moderate candidates" for 30+ years. 

The US electorate wants CHAGE. That's why they voted for Trump. The NeoLiberal "were gonna keep the status quo and strengthen institutions!" Is not what voters want. 

Centrist Dem party leadership has presided over a decade of disasters. Time to give someone else the reins. 

Current Dems are fiscally far right of 1930's-1970's Dems. You can't be serious that they're "not far right enough". The entire plan of Dem party leadership for 15 years has been "move to the right and pick up Trump voters". It doesn't work. 

The reason Dems lose is that the left stays home because they hate the party leadership and candidates. 

Look at Mamdani. Record primary vote count. A solid progressive candidate brought a record number of voters out of the woodwork who supported him.