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Who Should Like Ranked Choice Voting

I was listening to a thing on the radio that suggested that conservatives should want ranked choice voting because it empowers states rights. The two party system favors Washington, but ranked choice voting reflects better the will of local constituents, thus shifting the balance of power back from Washington and toward the states. That's an interesting concept.

Progressives and leftists like rank choice voting because it enables coalitions to get more things done instead of getting bound up in the gridlock of a two-party system.

If I were to accept these two premises, then the only people who would not want ranked choice voting would be mainline Democrats. Because the status quo benefits them financially. That's a very interesting concept.

No, wait, I take it back. The alt right also wouldn't like ranked choice voting because they benefit hugely both in power and financially from the two-party system.