Paul Krugman nails it: Why we're on DEMOCRATIC Underground

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78. That's why IRV would be the solution to work on...

Until then, third parties need to be careful not to run in races where they can be a spoiler, but we should be working together with them to get this in place.

You do agree that the Republican Party is the main party of money do you not? If so, then you can see why an instant runoff voting set of laws would HELP the Democratic Party as well as third parties in some instances when they have a very strong candidate, that might work well for us in those instances, and in those cases won't allow for a Republican to be close to winning at all either.

If those who are in the Democratic Party or who want to vote for it and third parties that also don't want money, then they will rank both Democrats and their candidates highly over Republicans, which will ultimately provide more votes for Democrats, especially if they are doing things like working to get money out of politics, which they SHOULD be doing, and not just trying to be "as good as the Republicans" are here by succumbing to the politics of corruption to get elected.

And if initial vote totals in an instant runoff voting scheme (not the ultimate totals subtracting out candidates in each "round&quot can give us a better idea of where voting constituencies really feel about all of the different parties in a given election and what they are running on, it will ultimately give the person who wins a better measurement of what kind of things he/she needs to do to make sure that this group of voters are happy with what they do in office if they work for all of their issues.