“ I guess I don’t get it. Without the RCV, wouldn’t the Democrat have already won…”
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Nope, along with RCV also came the “jungle primary” (everybody participates in the same primary with the top 4 advancing to the RCV general election). Without these changes the Democrat would have merely won her party’s primary and would have competed with the ONE winner of the Republican primary which she would have lost.
Thank you for clarifying that for me. I guess I was having a brain fart yesterday and everything was in a fog.