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| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 224: The Congressional Contempt for Political Buggery |
| red sox 777 05/05/19 11:51:54 AM #41: | Yeah, the Democrats' proportional representation in their primaries will keep on hurting them. If the Republicans used proportional representation, Trump would have had a plurality but not a majority of the delegates....and we would probably have had an RNC where the establishment delegates banded together behind Rubio or Bush or someone boring. And that candidate would have lost to Hillary. Thanks to proportional representation, Bernie's relatively small margins over Hillary in a bunch of swing states mattered very little, while Hillary's landslide wins in Southern states that were always going to vote Republican no matter what effectively clinched the nomination for her. That's exactly the opposite of the structure the Democrats should be using to maximize their chances in the general. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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