{"id":2954,"date":"2010-05-18T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T20:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2010-05-18T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T20:52:34","slug":"jungle-primaries-weeding-out-the-wing-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2954","title":{"rendered":"Jungle Primaries &#8211; weeding out the wing nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the extremely complicated &#8220;ranked choice voting&#8221; explained to me numerous times. I&#8217;ve remained skeptical that it is a worthwhile innovation. In some ways it is similar to the complicated US presidential electoral system which when a minority candidate wins leads to much unhappiness. I do understand this system and can offer up reasons to prefer it to a pure majority vote winner.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us\/elections\/elections-works.asp\">ranked choice <\/a>method seems directed at diluting the power of extremists and flaky third parties.<\/p>\n<p>I just read about another way which could neuter the crazies &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/politics\/removing-the-nuts\">&#8220;jungle primary.&#8221;<\/a> Minnesota is already half way there. Our primaries are open to any voter of any party. It has given me one of my most pleasing victories when Democrats flooded a GOP primary to vote for the serious Arne Carlson over an extremist Gubenatorial candidate. <\/p>\n<p>I think this &#8220;jungle primary&#8221; where one primary pits everybody against everybody else sounds much simpler and is even more likely to cut out the wingnuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the extremely complicated &#8220;ranked choice voting&#8221; explained to me numerous times. I&#8217;ve remained skeptical that it is a worthwhile innovation. In some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}