Recent content by Blahface

It can be argued that a Condorcet method is more complicated than IRV, but I think Borda count is way easier to understand than IRV. This is just anecdotal, but know a bunch of people who assumed "rank choice voting" worked like the Borda count. I agree with your overall point. I actually...

When I say should, I'm implying that the candidate most preferred by the voters should win.

So it is official. The ballot data is out and Begich should have won. You can see a more detailed pairwise summary here, but this is the main pairwise results: Begich beats Peltola with 52.5% of the vote. Begich beats Palin with by 61.4% of the vote. Peltola beats Palin with 51.4% of the...

I think the smarter thing for Republican voters to do would be to just rank Begich first. Second votes don't count unless you are eliminated.

I haven't been here in a while, but I have to say that this looks like it was a failure. Polling was pretty accurate saying that Peltola would beat Palin 51% to 49% if they went head to head. The polling also said that Nick Begich would beat Peltola head to head by about 10 pts. One poll said...

It isn’t that there isn’t enough time, it is that there are a lot of races and people are generally lazy and don’t want to do homework and they aren’t going to if they have a shit load of candidates in every race they are going to vote in. I don’t expect them to memorize the character of 50...

It is hard enough to get people to pay attention to candidates when there are just two of them. I feel that any voting system in which multiple candidates can run without a massive spoiler effect will result in more instances of candidates getting elected without much vetting. I think a runoff...

Ana did that in the heat of the moment. She later said that it was wrong of her to say that not long after.

This video pretty much gives the explanation. The summary is that Cenk Uygur, co-founder of the Justice Democrats, was forced into resignation for sexist comments he made 18 years ago when he was a completely different person. Anyone who watches TYT knows that does not represent Cenk now. It...

Just saw the Last Jedi. It was so bad. The humor, the dialog, and the acting was just so cringy. It had some surprise twists that I didn't see coming, but I also didn't care about them.

It absolutely is hypocritical of the representative to do that, but it isn’t hypocritical for voters to still vote for him if he is still willing undermine abortion rights. Furthermore, if there is a candidate like Thomas Jefferson who owned slaves, but wanted to abolish slavery while his...

I don’t like Roy Moore and I think he’ll be a terrible senator, but I don’t think the accusations against him are good reasons not to vote for him in the general election. Making sure an asshole doesn’t get elected pales in comparison to what policy they are going to enact. If you are against...

It would get candidates to pay more attention to Texas and Republican voters from the blue states would also have more sway. It also wouldn't necessarily be just California and New York gaining control of Texas electoral votes. Even if other red states do not agree to the compact, you could...

You don't need all 50 states, you should need enough states to get 270 delegates. Also, you don't just have to exclude states that are not in the compact from the results tabulation. They could count other states plurality system as voters just approving a single candidate. I'd want to do...

It is much, much harder to amend the constitution than to do a state compact.