Friday, July 04, 2003

The Move On primary

Okay, I'm a little late on this one, but its still bugging me over a week later. I just fail to see why MoveOn didn't have the foresight to run their primary with instant run-off voting rules. Aren't they supposed to be a progressive organization that would actually support something as important as instant run-off?

I seem to remember complaints from MoveOn about how the people voting on it were worrying about voting for one candidate or another, just because they thought in the real Democratic primary their candidate wouldn't win. Well then, aren't those exactly the conditions under which instant run-off rules? If you really support someone but are afraid everyone else wont support them then go ahead put them first, and put your perception of the mass vote popularity poll winner second. Maybe you'll be pleasently suprised!

MoveOn missed a huge opportunity to show over one million voters, and all the mass media following their primary, just how instant run off works and can change the voting habits of Americans.

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