"One-man-one-vote" sounds nice, but it's about the worst voting system possible.
Had voters been able to express their preferences as a ranked list of candidates, Romney would have been near the bottom for majority of people.
“Had voters been able to express their preferences as a ranked list of candidates, Romney would have been near the bottom for majority of people.”
I don’t know if a “ranking vote” can be relieved upon...but I do agree strongly with you sentiment. Personally, I would like to see mandatory runoffs if no candidate gets at least a true 50%. Pick the top two and let them square off in each state primary. Speaking of which...I would like to see ONLY primaries (no caucasuses) and only closed primaries. IF you are registered a Republican, you shouldn’t be voting in a Republican primary. Make folks chose a party, or to stay home primary elections.
One thing I hate about Missouri (where I now reside) is that they have open primaries. We didn’t do that nonsense in my home of Oklahoma. When I was young, I used to be “Independent” because I didn’t really understand the differences between the parties (yes I was ignorant). I never, and rightly so, got to vote in a primary. It wasn’t until my later 30s that I became politically aware and registered GOP so I could vote on State offices.
Interestingly enough, I always voted for the GOP presidential candidate starting with Gerald Ford in 1976. This will be the first year I will not vote GOP, because I cannot vote or Romney anymore than Obama. My conscience and convictions won’t let me support the magic mormon. Of course I would NEVER support the Obamanation.
Exactly what I’ve been trying to say for months. I remember surfing FR during the primaries, both now and in 2008. People loved their pet candidates so much and trashed all the others on the basis of one or two ideological points that by the time the primaries were over, Romney (Or in 2008, McCain) was the only one left. Not because he was a GOOD candidate, but instead because all the more conservative candidates had been sabotaged by the ‘true conservatives’ who had deemed them not pure enough and refused to rally behind them.
Meanwhile, Romney was riding under the radar the whole time. Oh, sure, no one liked him, but we were so busy trashing Cain, Perry, Santorum, and Newt for not catering to our pet projects that we didn’t realize that Romney was soaring to victory on the updrafts of all our hot air.
Well, now we’re stuck with Romney. And now those same ‘true conservatives’ who GAVE him to us on the grounds of ideological purity are trying to give us Obama on the grounds of ideological purity.