Re:What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
by munk-a on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @07:29PM
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I would consider Sanders to be a pretty legitimate third party candidate - VT democrats have coalesced around him recently but his initial bid for Senate was pretty spectacular. He managed to ride an extremely popular mayoral career into a state that is extremely dominated by Burlington population-wise. Burlington metro is roughly as large a proportion of the VT voting block as NYC metro is for NY.
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Re:What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
by dragonwriter on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @07:36PM
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> I would consider Sanders to be a pretty legitimate third party candidate -
While he identifies as a socialist by ideology and has some association with the Vermont Progressive Party, AFAIK he has always run for federal legislative office as an independent, not third-party, candidate.
> VT democrats have coalesced around him recently but his initial bid for Senate was pretty spectacular.
IIRC, his original House campaign was spectacular, but Democrats in VT coalesced around him in his 8 terms in VT’s sole House seat.