Thursday, February 20, 2020

Krystal v. Green on contested election

Adam Green is a Warren surrogate. So Saager brings up Warren's response to the contested convention question last night. Green previews the spin on this: That it would be "ranked choice" voting to override the candidate with the most votes if they don't get a majority. But ranked choice works with everyone who voted for the candidates to get their 2nd choice. The convention systems is to give superdelegates the extra votes for their 2nd choice; it's not we the people getting that opportunity. And we know the majority of the superdelegates are biased for a more establishment candidate.

Krystal makes the additional point that the Dem establishment keeps harping on how Hillary won the popular vote and should have been elected, that the Electoral College is unfairly biased. And yet when it comes to Bernie they want the same sort of biased process to override the popular vote. The ranked choice framing sounds good on the surface but as noted above it too is a corruption of that very process where Party insiders get a 2nd choice, not we the people.

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