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I really want to know what US politics would look like with instant runoff, "vote them off the island" style voting, or whatever it's called when people rank all the candidates from 1 to however many candidates there are and throw out the people at the bottom.

It would be much less predictable and more varied, certainly more entertaining, probably a little more pushed towards the extremes. But it wouldn't change presidential politics at all, and of course there's still the fundamental political landscape of the country to contend with - no systemic change is going to affect that a certain number of people think thus and a certain number of people think not thus.

If you want to change presidential politics, you'd want to change to a parliamentary system, probably. If you want to change the fundamental outlook of the country you'd want... I don't know, magic?

Mmm, but it would allow it to be easier for third parties to thrive though. Or am I completely wrong in that? And if that's true wouldn't that then affect the presidential election? I mean, if you could actually have a third strong runner...

The problem is that our system allows only one winner per election/position and awards seats to party members based on individual wins. It's impossible to have any more than two viable parties in such a system, for two interrelated reasons: first, people tend to vote strategically rather than based on their actual views, and second, parties that don't appeal to the center (which is where most people wind up, either because they actually are moderate or because they're, well, voting strategically) can never muster up of enough votes to break in. So, you wind up with a party that's left-of-center and a party that's right-of-center, but they both look pretty similar, and they absorb certain third party platforms and kind of shift around in this very broad middle area.

Even with run-offs, it would still wind up looking this way as long as the underlying structure stayed the same. The only way to change it, like someone else said, is to move to proportional representation a la parliamentary systems.

If you look at ranked choice voting, you'll get something of an idea of what that would look like. The logistics of having that nationally would be a pain, though. It's done locally in Minneapolis, but even with a relatively smooth operation in the elections department it can take a while to tie up all the loose ends.

Do I get to vote politicians out of the country? (You know, instead of off the island.)

Edited 2014-05-14 04:34 (UTC)

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