Speaking of Instant Runoff Voting…<\/p>\n
Who is it who actually “ranks” their choices, anyway?\u00a0 Maybe my point of view is skewed because I am a guy who has – and my social circle is a lot of politically-aware people who also have\u00a0–\u00a0strong opinions who know who they’re voting for and why<\/em>, but I can’t remember a single election where I had <\/em>a second choice for any office.<\/p>\n I went back through the last several key, contested elections, and entered “ranked choices” for each race.<\/p>\n Saint Paul Mayoral Election,<\/strong> 2009 Minnesota US Senate Race,<\/strong> 2008 Minnesota Fourth District Congressional Race,<\/strong> 2008 Minnesota Gubernatorial Race,<\/strong> 2006 Minnesota Fourth District Congressional Race,<\/strong> 2006 US Presidential Race,<\/strong> 2004 US Senate Race,<\/strong> 2002 US Presidential Race,<\/strong> 2000 Now, like most people, I do <\/em>believe most people are like me.\u00a0 Or, rather, that most people who should be allowed to vote are like me.<\/p>\n Oh, that sounded so intolerant; what I mean is that I suspect most people who actually care enough about politics to care about their voting system at all, really don’t go into the polling place with any sort of “second choice” in mind.\u00a0 We go into the polls wanting victory for the candidate who represents our beliefs the closest, and not a lot more.<\/p>\n Who actually has some notion of “ranking” choices in elections?\u00a0 I’m curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Speaking of Instant Runoff Voting… Who is it who actually “ranks” their choices, anyway?\u00a0 Maybe my point of view is skewed because I am a guy who has – and my social circle is a lot of politically-aware people who also have\u00a0–\u00a0strong opinions who know who they’re voting for and why, but I can’t remember […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23,17,13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-geekery","category-minneapolis","category-republicans","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22325,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions\/22325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFirst Choice<\/strong>: Eva Ng
\nSecond Choice<\/strong>: My dog, Clu.
\nThird Choice<\/strong>:\u00a0 A jab in the eye with a sharp stick.<\/p>\n
\nFirst Choice<\/strong>: Norm Coleman
\nSecond Choice<\/strong>: My cat, Nosemarie.
\nThird Choice<\/strong>: Getting ripped apart by mice.<\/p>\n
\nFirst Choice<\/strong>: Ed Matthews
\nSecond Choice<\/strong>: Being forced to sit in booth at Denny’s listening to Ken Weiner, Bill Pendergast and Eva Young frothing about Michele Bachmann for all eternity..
\nThird Choice<\/strong>: A “Spongebob Squarepants” marathon.<\/p>\n
\nFirst Choice<\/strong>: Tim Pawlenty
\nSecond Choice<\/strong>: My other cat, Candy.
\nThird Choice<\/strong>: Gouging out my own eyes with a spork.\u00a0 (This was almost a tie for third, by the way; Candy has this habit of biting my nose at 4AM that has her on my schvitz <\/em>list today).<\/p>\n
\nFirst Choice<\/strong>: Obi Sium
\nSecond Choice<\/strong>: Drinking a fifth of my own fermented sweat .
\nThird Choice<\/strong>: Going to “Drinking Liberally” and drinking heavily.
\nFourth Choice<\/strong>: Gargling with Drano
\nFifth Choice<\/strong>:\u00a0 Going to “Drinking Liberally” and not being allowed to drink at all.
\nSixth Choice<\/strong>:\u00a0 Any cast member from “The Hills”.
\nSeventh Choice: <\/strong>Betty McCollum.<\/p>\n
\nFirst Choice<\/strong>: George W. Bush
\nSecond Choice<\/strong>: Brussels Sprouts
\nThird Choice<\/strong>: Any random western European leader...<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFirst Choice<\/strong>: Norm Coleman
\nSecond Choice<\/strong>: One of those gas-station burritos, after it’s been sitting on my car seat on a hot day.
\nThird Choice<\/strong>: Rick Kahn’s speech, on eternal loop, forever.<\/p>\n
\nFirst Choice<\/strong>: Steve Forbes
\nSecond Choice<\/strong>: Jack Kemp.
\nThird Choice<\/strong>: Steve Forbes.<\/p>\n