And this is why I'm so tired of people going on about how they want REAL ACTUAL CHANGE NOT JUST TALK on one hand, and then disclaiming candidates who reject purity pledges Obama did the best he could, getting his hands dirty. He fought dishonorably and won a few times.
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That is more accurate, true. Multi-party voting methods wouldn't make it any easier for a fringe candidate to win a single winner election though, in fact, they would almost certainly make it harder (unless it's Borda, because that's a hilarious mess of a system).
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To win a single seat election, you either need a plurality (FPTP) "majority" (Ranked Choice) or the highest utility (Score). Of those plurality is easiest to pull off while having limited support.
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I.e. theoretically if there's a hundred socialists in every town and city in the state but they're all spread out they'll never get a congressman, while a much smaller number of Nazis who all live in the same town almost certainly will
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Right, so in this hypothetical, an average socialist ballot for a district in Naziville would end up casting its vote for the Dem equivalent whereas the Nazis would risk even less voting for the open Nazi first and might elect them, rather than the Republicsn
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But wouldn't a single member district elected by ranked choice probably come out the same? People would just feel more empowered to vote for extremes on either side, but usually it would still move to whatever the dominant candidate now would be
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Usually when people propose alternative voting for the legislature it's in the context of also getting rid of single member districts, instead letting everyone in the state vote for a slate of candidates (proportional representation)
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