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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I really want this to be true, and I used to believe it, but our voting system is convoluted with a winner-takes-all mechanism. It isn't a direct democracy where all votes are equal and it's naive to ignore our elector-based system that encourages total domination of the big boys over everyone else.

Give me ranked choice voting and I'll vote for my actual preferred candidate. Otherwise, I have to vote for who can actually have a chance to win.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

duverger has nothing to do with the electoral college. this is a Gish gallop