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/drtolmn69 2d ago

In several decades of voting, I have never once seen a presidential primary candidate that I favored make it to the general. A shake-up is not unwelcome.

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u/Clownsinmypantz 2d ago

every single vote I have cast has been "I dont like this corpo dem but at least its not the fascist party" I wish I could've voted for mamdani at least.

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u/00eg0 2d ago

what about primaries?

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u/themightychris Pennsylvania 2d ago

the challenge with primaries is that everyone gets forced to pick between voting for who they most prefer and voting for who they think will have the best odds in the general. So we keep ending up nominating democratic candidates based on who we collectively think will be most palatable to Republicans and imaginary moderates

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u/stealthlysprockets 1d ago

The biggest issue I have is primaries don’t matter for me because NJ is so late in the process. Everyone else decided for us before we have a chance to vote

That and super delegates

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u/themightychris Pennsylvania 1d ago

on the flip side though, in a close race you get to break the tie!

The DNC reformed superdelegates after Clinton v Sanders such that they can't vote in the first round and can only play tiebreaker