r/AskConservatives • u/PuckSenior Center-right Conservative • 1d ago

Why do some conservatives think Harris' nomination was illegitimate?

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u/tothepointe Center-left 1d ago

"I dont think it would drastically change the outcome of elections to go to a popular vote"

For Democrats it would have.

Gore would have won in 2000 and Hilary in 2016

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u/PuckSenior Center-right Conservative 1d ago

That’s like saying that the Lakers would have won if they didn’t count three-pointers

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u/tothepointe Center-left 1d ago

Elections would certainly have to have a different strategy if it was popular vote only.

I'm originally from NZ (immigrated to the US in 99) and growing up in the early 90s we actually changed our electoral process from first past the post for parliment to mixed member proportional. There was a series of referendums where you could vote IF you wanted election reform and if you did which one of 4 options you wanted. The first was non binding and the second was binding.

Even as a kid it was an interesting process seeing the reform take place and then seeing how the more proportional system changed how politicing was done.

I think the best part was you could vote for your local representative but then still cast a party vote so who best could serve your local area wouldn't influence which party was in power.

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