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In reply to the discussion: No Labels 'talking with several exceptional leaders,' national co-chair says [View all]BumRushDaShow
(172,373 posts)that with more states using "ranked choice" or "jungle primaries" or other similar schemes (and I realized that here in Philly, when we elect the "At-Large" City Council members, which would be a max of 7, the top-7 vote-getters win, with the 10 remaining "geographically fixed" Councilmanic Districts doing a majority-wins contest), eventually some other party might eventually break through.
With Philly's At-Large seats, the charter noted that at least 2 At-Large seats would be required to be set aside for a "minority party" and in the past 70 or so years with the modern city government, that has meant either a Democrat or Republican.
But 5 years ago, the Working Families Party actually broke through and grabbed one of the "traditional" GOP minority At-Large seats and after this past fall's election, ANOTHER member of the Working Families Party grabbed the OTHER "minority party" At-Large seat, and that essentially shut the GOP out from our 17-member City Council save for one, 4-decade long incumbent GOP member who runs in a fixed Councilmanic District.
I am still like this -