{"id":11983,"date":"2023-10-19T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11983"},"modified":"2023-10-19T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T11:44:07","slug":"how-ranked-choice-voting-would-sort-the-republican-primary-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11983","title":{"rendered":"How Ranked Choice Voting Would Sort the Republican Primary Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Trump would still be the runaway favorite. But the process of winnowing away the weaker candidates reveals something interesting about the Republican field: It’s not Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> who seemingly has the best chance of consolidating the anti-Trump vote. It’s former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley<\/a>.
That’s the main takeaway from a unique poll<\/a> of the primary field released Friday by FairVote<\/a>, a nonprofit that advocates for the adoption of ranked choice voting. The survey included about 800 Republican primary voters and operated under the principles of ranked choice voting<\/a>: each participant was asked to rank the GOP field from first to last, and the candidate who finished in last place in each round of vote-counting was eliminated, with their votes reassigned elsewhere depending on the respondents’ preferences.”
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“Things get really interesting after former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is eliminated in round nine. The bulk of his support flows to Haley<\/a>, who surges into second place with 20.3 percent of the total.”  
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[If you did the ranked choice process until there were only two candidates, the results were: Trump 62.3%; Haley 37.7%]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How Ranked Choice Voting Would Sort the Republican Primary Field<\/a><\/blockquote>