It's not so much "fuck the DNC" as it is just "the DNC isn't doing this; we'd love to provide them this service and this good information".
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The current form of primaries gives remarkably noisy information. It's super prone to "interpretation"; and because the data is so muddled by districting, those "interpretations" can get dangerously "creative" rather than be informative. Opposite of what primaries are *for*.
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So let's make a new primary. Call it "
#SuperSunday". Do it before "Super Tuesday". Do it simultaneously, everywhere. No states starting and reporting ahead of others, giving them false importance. Standardize polling rules. Votes should be able to sum up across the nation.1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
(Bonus: Do it AGAIN the next Sunday. See if the discourse after the last results changed anything.) (There's no reason *not* to do this. The Swiss do multiple rounds of voting on almost anything serious, and it seems to work nicely for them.)
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Do one nation-wide pool of votes. No gerrymandering. No superdelegates. It's clear that nobody thinks those things are fair or good or correct, and they cause months of bad feelings on all sides; why do we keep doing it to ourselves? Let's just... stop!
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Binding? No, of course it's not binding. You can't bind the DNC nor RNC to a damn thing, and they've shown that. But it's better information for the rest of us. The amount of second-guessing and bitter recriminations about wrongly-strategic voting could drop to zero.
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And if the DNC really is continuing to run candidates that objectively no one likes... we get to *see it*. Maybe seeing it clearly -- no befuddlements from "splitting the vote", etc etc -- is the first step to fixing it.
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Is this all hopelessly naive? Well, maybe. But ask yourself: are you happy with the primary system as it stands? Is there any reason we can't just... make a new one? What would be standing in the way?
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Replying to @warpfork
I see some problems with network effects + likely sampling error + difficulty with verifying millions of votes in one night These seem solvable with sufficient money + publicity though
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Also all good reasons to make it non-binding, at least at first. Like, I'm *very* worried about all the should-surely-now-be-well-discussed downsides of electronic voting. On the other hand: it's a primary. And the bar to be _better than_ what we're replacing is just _so_ low.
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oh yeah for sure, its definitely worth a shot
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