Former U.S. Sen. Rob Portman says his new academic institute will study ranked-choice voting and primary election reforms as a way to improve bipartisanship.
COLUMBUS, Ohio– Former U.S. Sen. Rob Portman left Washington as increasingly extreme politics were making it nearly impossible to make bipartisan deals to help the country.
And while Ohio’s partisan primary system pits Republican versus Republican and Democrat versus Democrat, Portman wants to study the California system where all candidates appear on the same primary ballot. In California, the top two vote-getters in the primary move on to the general election regardless of party affiliation.
But critics of the partisan process of drawing those lines say that mapmakers’ penchant for packing districts with high concentrations of voters who will reliably support one party only encourages political extremism. It can force candidates out of the ideological center and to the fringes of their own parties and drive bigger wedges between policymakers sent to statehouses and Congress.
It’s complicated, but one of the reasons is that the polarization of America has sorted us into political identity groups, according to Why We’re Polarized, the bestselling book by Ezra Klein. Ohio voters also voted in 1992 to term limit Ohio’s U.S. senators and U.S. representatives, although they were not enacted because theDespite the social and political turmoil of perhaps the most divisive time in 20th century America, Allen Ginsberg and William Buckley were able to engage in a respectful dialogue -- which touched on topics of psychedelics and the budding war on drugs, censorship, religion, the Vietnam War and more.
Proponents of the system are trying to spread it across the country. They’ve pursued ballot issues to coax change in other states, and they’re trying to gather support for a similar drive in Ohio.Incivility in public discourse has been raging for years, but tracing its origins is complicated. One author pegged it to 1988, when The Rush Limbaugh Show became nationally syndicated and spawned a generation of partisan media.
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