The Mikado
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« on: May 18, 2018, 02:39:27 PM » |
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Proportionality really screws with everything. It's pretty clearly true that there's more room to the left in the Democratic primary than to the center, but if voters on the left are really divided between half a dozen names, one person towards the center could do disproportionately well with 25-30% of the vote, especially if that person has even the remotest crossover appeal to other groups. Alternately, more "centrist" Dems could play kingmaker between various different stripes of "Progressive," if, say, the primary comes down to Sanders v Gillibrand v Harris v Warren, all of whom are running to the "left" but mean different things by the "left.
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