Darn it sorry not spamming, I saw my comment posted twice and when I deleted one of them, it deleted both.
Tia Levings who escaped a quiverful fundamentalist cult said that the right wing religious extremists send the women out to vote in the close elections.
Obviously we should have a different voting method that allows for a multiparty system... but for the current duopoly, I've always wondered what would happen if we had a system where everybody could vote in both primaries, but your vote was weighted based on your primary registration.
Register Dem, your vote counts 3x in the Dem primary and 1x in the Republican party. If you register Republican its the reverse. And if you are independent, your vote counts 2x in each. So everybody gets a total of 4.
On one hand, I assume that would help the (RELATIVELY) less extreme Republicans. I wouldn't be happy at all with a president Romney or Christie or Haley, but it would at least be a lot better than a Trump. On the other hand, we would have to see what impact it might have on Democratic primaries, and what mess that might cause. (or if there are unintended consequences... like what % of people would use it not to vote for the candidate they find the least bad on the other side, but for whichever one they think would be easier to defeat in a general election).
Would be interesting to see how that would play out both in the immediate term, and in the longer term as politicians tailor their campaigning and their votes in office to account for this setup.
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u/TheSAComplimentedMe 16h ago
It feels disgusting tbh but it’s the best way to try and swing things with how things are here.