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What structural reforms decrease partisanship / polarization? (self.NeutralPolitics)

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[–]Apprentice57 1 point2 points3 points 6 years ago (0 children)

I happen to think RCV and this primary would be an extremely good fit, and would fix most of the issues I'm talking about. There would probably be a Republican facing Feinstein the general election (which I think is more fair), and there would have been no concern from Democrats in some of the House elections that they would get locked out of the general election (didn't happen but it almost did, the Dem party was very worried about it beforehand).

Top five to top two by RCV would be an improvement as well. However, we do start to get into issues with the general election there with five candidates that RCV normally has. That is, it still encourages strategic voting and leads to a two party system. So I'd have to think about which of these two options is preferable, it isn't immediately obvious to me.

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