• eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Primary elections are how parties change. Primary elections are how the Republican party became what it is today. They are often the highest-leverage vote you can cast if you’re in a solid district.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      Yup. People don’t realize there is already a not horrible approximation of runoff voting that still avoids the spoiler effect.

      And just look at what happened when Sanders realized that. He went from being a meme about how nobody watches C-SPAN to one of the more influential politicians on the Left.