Did you know we already use a 2-tier Proportional Representation system in the US? It's called the Democratic Presidential Primary. Tier 1 is the Congressional District, Tier 2 is the State level. Delegates are awarded by percentage of the vote. 1/
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Jim Godowic
Профиль VivelyMany people are saying many countries do this. The best people say the best countries do it.
Darin SelfI am begging my fellow Americans to learn how parties work *literally* every where else. Candidates are not more legitimate just because they were selected via a primary. Parties regularly select candidates and then voters, in an election, tell the party if they liked them or not.
Let's replace all primary elections with this method and have multiple parties instead of 2 political 'public utility' ballot lines. Just a thought.
Andy CraigState party should just throw the names of every Dem state legislator between the ages of 40 and 60 in a hat pick a replacement that way, the odds are better than any deliberated calculated decision they could make.
Gore Vidal had them pegged over 70 years ago and not much has changed, really.
Josephine "beckbook.com" RiesmanWe talk a lot about how the NYT leadership hates trans people, but we underestimate how much they hate all kinds of queerness Never forget that Michael Barbaro is an ex-gay who was inspired to divorce his husband and marry a woman because he was friends with Ross Douthat
The press is conservative-biased and has been for at least 40 years.
Mark CopelovitchWhat are we doing here? These same outlets spent a month destroying Biden’s presidency by breathlessly covering 🇦🇫 as a total omnishambles demonstrating the End Of All Things about 🇺🇸 power & the Failure of Democrats’ foreign policy. Now? “To get the Strait open, Trump needed to compartmentalize” 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Same for IL General Assembly. 177 seat unicameral legislature. Do it for all states. This is the way.
Phoebe ↙↙↙one of my more crank opinions is that we should combine the minnesota house and senate into a unicameral body of 201 legislators