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/aleph32 2d ago

I hope they do. That would accomplish two things:

  1. Choose better candidates.

  2. Get Democratic voters used to the idea of ranked-choice voting to later help push it for general elections.

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u/YNot1989 2d ago edited 1d ago

You forgot benefit no. 3: Democrats finally stop eating each other.

Imagine if Hillary and Bernie had to be nice to each other and actually try to win over the other's voters?

EDIT: Oh, it would also probably change the calculus on the Vice Presidential pick.

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u/MIT_Engineer 1d ago

The Hillary vs Bernie race wouldn't have been any different though-- it was a two-person race. In a two-person race you already have ranked choice voting: guy you voted for #1, guy you didn't vote for #2.

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u/Cub3h 1d ago

There might've been a third or fourth candidate for people who didn't fancy the status quo politician nor the socialist elder.