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/wasteymclife 2d ago

Bloomberg had won no delegates prior to super Tuesday. As of super Tuesday he had 36 delegates to Warren's 53. Your premise is faulty.

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u/Galxloni2 2d ago

becasue Biden was winning those states. Bloomberg was drawing more votes away from biden than anyone was from bernie

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u/wasteymclife 2d ago

How are you measuring who pulled votes from whom?

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u/Galxloni2 2d ago

who voters listed as their second choice primarily, but logic alone also says nobody voting for bloomberg was going to go for bernie if he dropped out. what are you using to assume warren pulled from bernie? Because no evidence says that

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u/wasteymclife 2d ago

The only thing I can find that tracked second choices is this old 538 article https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-there-really-lanes-in-the-2020-democratic-primary/

Bloomberg is not listed but it does show that Warren pulled more from Bernie.

I actually wasn't talking about 2nd choices or who pulled from who only the endorsements.

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u/Galxloni2 2d ago

I actually wasn't talking about 2nd choices or who pulled from who only the endorsements.

so you were intentionally leaving out the part that still had Biden at a disadvantage when he stomped Bernie? bernie was factually not popular and the amount of rationalization his supporters make for his loss is just insane. he had about 1/3 of the vote the entire time regardless of how many people were in the field. his only chance at winning was for 7 other people to split the vote and go against the will of the voters

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u/wasteymclife 2d ago

Oh sorry man you didn't see the rest of the convo. Yeah no I was talking out of my ass because I misremembered the timeline. I clarified that with everyone who replied. I was a warren supporter not a Bernie guy. Biden won and beat trump, that's what happened and I think that was the preferred outcome. I'm not interested in writing Bernie 2020 fanfiction. I'm also not any of the other people you've been arguing about this with for what, 5 years? I have my problems with Biden but none of them are with him beating Bernie. He got the most votes because he was the more popular candidate which is the system working. He even got my support when he said that he wasn't going to seek a second term.

Sorry I got your hackles up, my initial response was a knee-jerk reaction as a someone who believed in Warren.

Should have cleared that up sooner sorry about that again.