Republicans have a history of nominating weak candidates in primaries with lots of candidates.
These nominees sneak through a crowded field with 30 or 40 percent of votes, and then lose winnable seats in the fall.
Ranked choice voting is a simpler, faster, cheaper alternative that elects party nominees with strong primary support going into the general election. Voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate wins a majority of voters’ first choices, the race goes to an “instant runoff” that counts the backup choices of voters whose first choice trailed the field — until a candidate gets to 50 percent and wins.
Meanwhile, the year’s most competitive Senate race is in Pennsylvania — where an untested candidate like Dr. Oz, David McCormick, or Kathy Barnette could win with less than 25 percent of primary votes. Instead of the constructive campaign we saw in Virginia, the race has devolved to what undecided Republican voters call “mean,” “a circus,” and “disappointing.”
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