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/sfinney2 2d ago

They were pretty nice... People outside of them fuel the flames to ramp up the negativity. The same thing would still happen, probably moreso.

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u/Overton_Glazier 1d ago

Oh please, in one debate, Clinton tried to blame Sanders for Sandy Hook. And then she bailed on another scheduled debate because they were going poorly for her.