See California and Alaska. Rank choice voting in any form is a disaster
Good.
So Montana Republicans are going to adopt a California style Jungle Primary thinking that it will help them in the next election (by knocking the libertarians off the ballot) and don’t realize that the long term effect will be to have the undisciplined Republicans out of power forever.
Ain’t that special.
Sound like the Montana GOP wants make sure they get their chosen RINO nominated.
Montana GOP wants to turn Democrat. That is the trajectory of Ranked voting.
Slippery slope is unleashed in this system.
Good. The only way that Republicans can win elections now is if they cheat better and harder than the Democrats, and they had shown no inclination to do that in the past.
Wealthy liberals abandon the states they mismanaged and run to these Midwest states to enact their leftist social agenda.
Why would a Republican controlled state seek to enact a policy which undermines their own control? Because Leftists play to win while Republicans want to be lazy and sit around saying only “slow down”
Someone please remind these pearl-clutching Rs that the enemy would not think twice about the moral implications of legislating anything to their advantage.
Paraphrasing Sun Tzu: Unless one is prepared to be more ruthless than your enemy, your victory is not assured.
Also, do *NOT* go the way of Ranked Choice Voting. It is too easy to manipulate. All the proponents of RCV who tout how RCV saves taxpayers money, etc are full of Schiff. In the few places where RCV has been implemented I doubt that any R has emerged victorious. I am probably wrong about any absolute numbers but I doubt that RCV has produced a 50-50 product over all. Think 90D - 10R.
Hell, why not change the rules. The far-left Dung Beetle Party does it all the time. It’s the only way to win in this third world, banana republic these days. Play by the rules, YOU LOSE!
And the NYT wouldn't want that!
A Jungle Primary will not fix the GOP problem in Montana.
It seems the Libertarian Party has enough clout in Montana to take away votes for a GOP candidate in the General Election.
The GOP and Libertarians need to join and not continue fighting each other.
Otherwise, leftist Democrats get elected.
While I agree in theory that this is a bad idea, we are at the “whatever it takes” point. I am tired of playing by the Marques of Queensbury rules while the Dems rig the outcomes of elections.
“top two” primary system, sounds like only two parties get to hold a primary. Doesn’t sound like ranked choice or jungle primary.
This is not ranked voting, simply the top two vote getters move to the runoff. I don’t think this race to replace the Democrat will be as tough as the Times would like to think.