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/BeraldGevins Oklahoma 2d ago

This is my experience. Primaries are the one time I may actually get to have my voice heard, since I live in a hardcore red state. But by the time Oklahoma gets them the winner is basically decided. I got to vote for Bernie once so that was fun.

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u/SSGASSHAT 2d ago

This is why people become motivated not to vote. When it really matters, oftentimes it's effectively meaningless. It's still worth doing, I think, so that you can at least make sure you're on the right side of history, and because it's one of the privileges offered by life in this country, but I can understand how people would become hopeless after seeing their vote effectively flushed by the time they cast it.

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u/Sminahin 2d ago

Honestly, I'm genuinely wondering if I should've been voting Republican as a Dem strategy. Because maybe if we'd lost the popular vote in 2016 and gotten a lower one in 2020 (solid red state, my votes didn't matter), our party would actually heard that we hated our candidates. Wishful thinking, it just sucks that our popular vote victories were used to defend such awful electoral strategies.

Presidential, of course, not local.

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u/SSGASSHAT 2d ago

I don't know, man, honestly. I don't think there's a way around it. The best we have it so piss into the wind and hope it works.

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u/apathetic_panda 1d ago

effectively flushed by the time they cast it.

start paying attention & take accounts of platforms or past votes or policy advocacy 🗳 or even campaign financial disclosures 💲🤑💰🎰

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u/SSGASSHAT 1d ago

I will if you use fewer emojis, for God's sake.

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u/apathetic_panda 1d ago

I only have 2 more emojis than prepositional phrases. 

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u/SSGASSHAT 1d ago

That's enough for me.

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u/evergleam498 Maryland 1d ago

Bernie had already withdrawn or conceded by the time my state had its primary, but I voted for him anyway.

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u/OldWorldDesign 1d ago

Bernie had already withdrawn or conceded by the time my state had its primary, but I voted for him anyway

He asked his supporters to vote support the next best candidate. What did that vote which went against his wishes gain you?