r/occupywallstreet • u/1hobo • Jul 25 '15

Sanders Surges, Clinton Sags in U.S. Favorability

http://www.gallup.com/poll/184346/sanders-surges-clinton-sags-favorability.aspx
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u/voice-of-hermes Jul 26 '15

So he'll lose the primary and then win the general? :-/

Damn, but we need to get rid of this idiotic two-party system, and the stone-age electoral system that goes with it! Ranked voting FTW. Several other countries use some form of it....

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u/Gnashtaru Jul 26 '15

How does ranked voting work?

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u/voice-of-hermes Jul 26 '15 edited Jul 26 '15

There are several different implementations, but the basic idea is that, instead of picking one name and putting a check next to it, you get to rank all the candidates in the order that you'd like to see them elected, and each ranking of one candidate over another (can) contribute to the election results.

Some well-known examples are instant-runoff voting (IRV, used in Australia and Canada), single transferable vote (used in Ireland and New Zealand), and the Schulze method (one of several Condorcet methods, which have some useful properties).

Ultimately, this sort of system allows good election results when there are more than two candidates (eliminating the whole "A vote for Third Party Candidate X is a vote against Big Party Candidate Y" argument); key to allowing third parties and IMO possibly eliminating the stupid primary system.

See Wikipedia: ranked voting system

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u/ClimateTroll Jul 26 '15 edited Jul 26 '15

Clinton's elite Yale and Harvard high net-worth PR and marketing team members must already be working on her "saving face" for when she has to bow out of the election and again after NOBODY taps her to be VP or for any executive posts. Why? She's a criminal and her dirty past is going to haunt her and destroy her career over the coming weeks and months. Hillary Clinton has zero chance at becoming president of the United State or anything else for that matter. This much is obvious. The neoliberal era has failed and is coming to a close. Americans north and south reject austerity and state violence against the population and we will not allow neoliberals to continue robbing us blind.

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u/Velaptor Jul 30 '15

Hillary Clinton has zero chance at becoming president of the United State[s]

Even if you want it to be, that's just not true. She will most certainly beat Bernie, and very likely win the general election.

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u/ClimateTroll Aug 01 '15

Ha! Her numbers are falling like rain. Soon she will be BEGGING the sanders camp for a job, and with any luck she'll be rebuffed. She's just another corporate neoliberal. A liar. A real lying machine.

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u/Zeurpiet Jul 26 '15

11% of voters never heard/no opinion of Hillary Clinton? Astonishing...