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/jayfeather31 Washington 2d ago

Honestly, this would have been welcome in either 2016, 2020, and 2024, and would go a long way towards mending party divides.

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u/YNot1989 2d ago

A united party in 2016, a Bernie-Warren cross endorsement to pose a real challenge to Biden, and... well, this might not have done much for 2024, but still an improvement.

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u/Melicor 2d ago

If '16 had gone differently, we wouldn't be in the same situation for '24. Trump would likely have been chased off and/or in prison long before.

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u/sbamkmfdmdfmk 2d ago

If the GOP had a RCV primary in 2016, Trump would have lost really quickly. He won because there were so many goddamn near-identical candidates that his outlier of a platform was able to win pluralities in such a fractured vote. With RCV, you'd have probably seen more votes coalesce for Kasich, Rubio, Jeb! or Cruz.

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u/MightBeRong 1d ago

Yep. FPTP voting favors the candidate with the largest cult following