What is the 'primary problem' and how to fix it?
House seats are being decided season as opposed to the general election, and Nick Troiano of Unite America says this leads to a primary problem.
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What is the 'primary problem' and how to fix it?
#Congress #Politics #GOP
Rank. Choice. Voting.
Gosar runs UNOPPOSED. He ranks first, every time. Does not even live in the District
@@JackHawkinswrites google "Rank choice voting".
Can’t Margie be ousted for unbecoming behavior of being a congresswoman? Our elected officials should be held to a higher standard. Our elected officials are supposed to be working for us, not playing games and putting on a circus show. Our political system is currently a huge embarrassment.
I learned about the primary problem in American History class 25 years ago. It’s not new.
What's unconscionable in Florida is that my property taxes fund primaries that, as an independent, I'm not allowed to participate in. Party members say it's a non-issue and that all I have to do is register with a major party - as if my right of free association didn't exist. I have no problem with closed primaries per se, but I think they should be funded by the parties - not citizens through taxes only affecting property owners who may not agree with significant policies of any party.
I've thought of this a lot and have come to the conclusion that parties should have to pay for their own primaries if they appear in public elections. Parties that refuse to pay will pick their candidates in a private manner instead.
GOP needs to throw MAGA out and get back to their conservatism instead of all this conspiracy BS.
Roe vs Wade will separate the conservatives from the evangelists.
Donald Trump will drain a swamp of these useless politicians. Isn’t that what we all wanted really? Don’t be brainwashed by fake news. Americans can’t even buy homes now. It’s getting worse.
I'm curious with Troiano's idea of who the "partisan extremists" on the Demcrat's side. Does he think AOC is an extremist? He should have been asked to explain that point.
Excuse me but OAC is not spending her time trying to oust the speaking (of her own party) because he has the nerve to vote FOR a really serious bill that would help defeat Putin!
@@Nothinfailsbutatry That's my point. The author seemed to be doing a "both sides" type of assertion. However, one of these sides is not like the other.
Gerrymandering is a problem but "closed" primaries are kind of based on the idea that the nominee of the Democratic (or Republican) party should be selected by Democrats (or Republicans. What do you do when you're going into an election with an incumbent on one side and a wide open field on the other? Opportunities for mischief making, ala "Operation Chaos".
Gerrymandering is definitely a big part of the problem. They don't have to be objective when they isolate themselves to the most extreme portions of their population.
The real problem is that we have allowed crazy people with crazy views allowed to represent us. Voting has never been more important.
Yeah you've got them on the left Adam Schiff Maxine Waters Nancy pelosi these people have absolutely lost it
This goes for both sides, AOC on the left; MTG on the right.
@@bobevans9955Weak deflection. The topic is your cult.
@@DarthSailorMoo that's rich coming from the guy that can't even tell me why I should vote for a Democrat you just can't answer the question is it because you're not intelligent enough.
@@DarthSailorMoo There's our guy! Did you work on getting knocked up last night, Curtis?
answer - get their medications fixed / seek counseling for daddy issues and leave the rest of us out of it.
Here in England we’ve just had local government elections with no preordained “primary”, in London there were 8 candidates for Mayor, no reason it couldn’t have been more, so we all had a choice of at least one candidate we could agree with. Unfortunately I didn’t like the look any of them except the traditional joke candidate, Count Binface, dressed as a rubbish bin, so I voted for him for doing the least damage 😂😂😂😂. But seriously how can you let Trump anywhere near the Presidency, he’s a sick person and capable of taking your country down a very deep hole.
President Trump is not a SELL-OUT, he works for *Americans* protecting our U.S. Borders and constitutional rights. Not foreign countries and special interest groups. Prove me wrong. Worry about the UK
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It’s time for MTG to go
Why ?
@@Jetty-hs6kxIf you have to ask, all I can say is POSHEL na khuy!!!
@@Jetty-hs6kx You must live in a red welfare state.
@@Jetty-hs6kx He has no idea why. He just types what he's told.
Bowman must go. Alarms are pulled. Bob M must go. Thief Omar and Tlaib must go. Both hate America and it's Allies. AOC just clueless.
California has a "top two" primary system that works. The top two primary vote getters move to the general regardless of party. There are no party primaries for federal or state offices except for the presidency.
Have republicans done anything useful this century? Can anyone name one real thing?
TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE -- problem solvers and problem makers.
Ranked/Approval Voting is how you solve the problem, not open primaries
It’s simple. Term limits.
Problem is a Democrat is afraid to call out extreme in their party and a Republican is also afraid to call out extreme in their party.
YEP! I often ask Dems on here: "If Trump loses in court and/or loses the election, I can accept that and move forward." "If Trump wins his cases AND/or the election, will you accept that and move forward?" Most don't answer, a few have had rational responses, and a good handful just say "NO!". Kinda scary...
As soon as Trump loses and is out of politics for good, the Republicans will then call out the extremes. So about 6 months from now. The democrats will never call out their extremes
Biden is extreme. He supports intervention and is anti single payer Healthcare. Voting Green Party is the only logical choice.
Biden is extreme. He thinks funding war in Ukraine is smart, blocking Single Payer Healthcare, and cosigning Israeli actions in Gaza. Voting Green Party is the only logical thing to do.
What did Liz Cheney get for calling out extremism in her party? The problem isn’t that politicians won’t call out extremism. The problem is that the voters are extreme, and are exclusively consuming “news” that makes them more so.
Two problems confront our country. The first is the 2 party system and how both parties fight to maintain that system. The second is, though there is a 2 party system, often times they act as though we have a uniparty that govern on the basis of who has the most money. Examples being, the MIC or the Israeli lobby.
“…until we reform our system of primaries.” So, there is no solution then.
I have no idea what this guy's proposed solution is, since it wasn't discussed in this clip. But here's mine. 1) Ranked choice voting for all elections. If there are N candidates running, everyone ranks the candidates from 1 (least desired) to N (most desired). Total up the points thus generated and pick the winner(s) based on that total. (This allows second, third, etc. choice votes to affect the outcome, but less strongly than first-choice votes.) 2) Eliminate primaries entirely (except for Presidential elections). Multiple candidates from the same party can run in the general election; the above points scheme captures preference within a party as well as preference between parties. (It's for this reason that I prefer this points scheme over the instant-runoff system in use by a couple states. In the latter, second-choice votes are only considered if no one gets more than 50% of first-choice votes, so one party having more candidates running than another would dilute the votes of that party's supporters. Allowing second-choice, etc., votes to affect the outcome helps correct for that.) 3) Multi-member districts. If a state has, say, 6 seats in Congress, all candidates for all six seats run in the same election. The top six candidates according to the above points scheme go to Congress. 4) Do the same for state legislatures and city councils, etc. (At least some city councils already do this.) 5) Assign electoral college votes proportionally, using the same points scheme. Lets say candidate A gets 60% of a state's available points, candidate B gets 35%, and candidate C gets 5%. In a state with 8 electoral votes, candidate A would get 5 of them and candidate B would get 3. These things can all be done at the state level, with no need for any Constitutional changes or Congressional involvement. Steps 3 and 4 make gerrymandering impossible.
Primaries are where parties select their party candidates. Any eligible voter can vote, they just have to declare a party. Gerrymandering is a much larger problem.
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Spoken like a true Unpatriotic Republican
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No one is voting green party because we want democracy we will vote for Biden.
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@@ld3511 Democrats don't believe in democracy. So that's cute
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Good grief! Paul Gosar looks like Igor from the old black and white Frankenstein and Vincent Price movies! What's wrong with him?! Is he even really alive?! 😱
Just because no one wants to run against Gosar, that is no reason to force a change in how candidates are selected
As long as the Popular Vote isn't absolute, the system is a flawed democracy and prone to corruption...Please change it! Reply
The resurrection of the written ballot …
1:07 An alternative solution is for the majority of people (voters) to participate in the primaries. Then the primary candidates will appeal to the majority of people. Let's demand more from the populace. We get the government we deserve.
1. quit gerrymandering 2. quit having to declare a party affiliation when registering 3. have an open primary 4. and make sure both parties have at least one person running. (the ONLY reason why mtg won the first time around is her democratic opponent dropped out of the race right before the election.) 5. have a Congress that puts reins on extremists, holds the reins, and puts oath to country first over party.
All the initiatives to have non-aligned voters have their say in primaries is a crap idea: the primaries are private parties. That is why no court can decide who is allowed to be on a primary ballot - but when it comes to official elections, the candidates who are chosen by their parties can be disqualified for their office like lack of citizenship (Republicans would vote for Putin if Trump is not allowed because that would repeat the 2016 election result, which made Trump act as Putin's VP for the USA) or by the 14th Amendment - which was blocked by the STPC (the Supreme Trump Protection Court, formerly known as SCOTUS).
The primary problem so simple the white house and the dems.
The problem is out of control corruption of the GOP. Party of chaos, destruction, treason, pathological liars, hate, division, corruption, criminality, lawlessness, unethical, amoral, inhumane, behavior.
Nah it's the gQp with them constantly suppressing our rights to vote. Every intelligent person know that already.
In a jungle primary the richest candidate gets to choose the weakest opponent. This is a recipe for plutocracy.
End dual citizenship in Congress
The Medal Of Freedom should be awarded to every single member of the January 6 Committee. Truth Bless America.
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Yay Vermont!!! Every registered voter can get both party's ballot in the mail, choose one and mail it back or go in person to the poll and choose. We currently have a Republican governor and Democratic Senators and Reps. Pretty sure Moscow Marge and Bettlejuice Bobert would not win any race
This is not a Republican issue only because it's the same in democratic states too like California.
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That’s both relevant and insightful. Thank you for raising the level of our political discourse.
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You mean blaming russia isnt wotking?
While it is easy to recognise that primaries for a particular party's choice of candidate often results in those successful having to play to the ultra partisan, it must be remembered that it is the party's candidate who is being chosen, and not the election itself for who will represent the district/state. The way to choose better representatives/senators is to vote at general elections, not to tell party members that others may select their candidate.
The concern being raised is that this results in only extreme partisan candidates even getting to the general election, causing the current dysfunctional mess in Congress.
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Democrat work is on full display and it's horrible. So many problems there
Wake up fool
Dual Citizenship in Congress. Careere politicians. Military Industrial complex. Open borders Money laundering Insider trading
🇦🇺 Compulsory voting with a social patriot demerit if you fail to have a say in your country would fix that issue. We financially punish failure to vote but the working poor is a far greater problem in your country.
If you do not belong to the Party, you should have no say in who the Party members chose to represent them. Everyone can vote in the General elections
"Everyone can vote in the General elections" Yea, rules are for Makers not Takers.
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Need money ask old Bob M he'll steal you a gold bar or 2
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MTG is not a SELL-OUT, she works for Americans, protecting our U.S. Borders and constitutional rights. Not foreign countries and special interest groups. Prove me wrong.
The primary problem is the squatter in the White House.
Better than the grifter who wants to return
I voted for that squatter and I’m voting for him again so cry harder.😭
After almost 100% of our Democrat House members voted to remove former speaker, Kevin McCarthy, Democrats sided with about eight Maverick Republicans in order to get this job done. It would appear that we are now standing with Johnson and are going to save him. He is one of the best friends our House Democrats have.
Democratic.
I took social civics in High School in 1970. I was a Republican since Reagan. I was so fed up with Trump's BS that I actually left the GOP and went Democrat to oust Trump. I am not afraid of this monstrosity called Donald J Trump. He needs to be put into prison for the crimes he committed against America's Democracy. Should he become the President again He will end Democracy and all our freedoms as we know it. VOTE BLUE ALL THE WAY! Capitol Hill needs to be protected.
The primary problem is that we only have 2 parties, and thus we only have 2 real choices come election time.
@@AndreaCuchetto poo is blue silly rabbit. Tricks are for Democrats
you should start your own party then!
America over Trump country... I'm chosing America again.
Cultist Blue is on a mission to break us down into a single party system.
There are only two ends of the political spectrum. It makes sense to have two parties. Otherwise you end up with this situation, as we often do in Canada (I’m approximating the numbers to illustrate a point): 30% vote for the liberal Liberal party, 30% vote for the liberal NDP party, and 40% vote for the conservative Conservative party. We end up with a conservative government that 60% of the electorate voted against. Ranked order ballots might solve that. Combined with multiple parties, that could work.
Vote maga out vote Blue Biden 2024 💙
Voting all the blue crap out of Texas and sending it back to California and New York with some illegals.
It's all over with for Joe Biden everybody knows it 3 1/2 years into his presidency and it's a complete s*** show.
I’m not voting for a man that sends weapons to a genocide.
That sounds insane 🤪
Parties can select their candidates however they want. Trump can tell Lara that he is the permanent head of the party and perennial presidential candidate. That is Republican Party business. Trump can tell Lara he will personally select and approve every single republican candidate across the country. That is Republican Party business. In Canada my MP candidates are selected behind closed doors by the party apparatchiks, not by voters. The candidates don’t campaign. They don’t necessarily even live in my city. Someone gets elected and voted how the party leader tells them. Unfortunately I have Trudeau leading the country and at no point do I have a chance to vote up or down on him. American academics can get over themselves on how to fix anything and everything. We also have a senate that isn’t voted for and does next to nothing and we have some person representing the monarchy who has more say than the average citizen. Get over yourself America.
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MTG Forever. Deport the Squad. Fire Joe. Trump ‘24.
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This administration is the problem.
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Does anyone worship MSNBC? Does anyone worship DJT? Hypocrisy??
MTG is so pathetic! MTG for madhouse 2024!
Madcow for the butcher shop
Did ya get it all out Princess???
@@michaelbrigantithink heshe needs a Kleenex and diaper change 🫣
Self-sorted voters. Yeah. We sort ourselves into low income neighborhoods, farmland, and gated communities. Has nothing to do with economics or the Electoral College 😂
What is the difference between a constitutional republic and a democracy? By definition, a republic is a representative form of government that is ruled according to a charter, or constitution, and a democracy is a government that is ruled according to the will of the majority. We are both a constitutional republic and a democracy. Furthermore when POTUS violates the constitution then your argument falls to pieces. According to Wikipedia, Algeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, North Korea, Laos, Nepal, and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic are examples of republics that are not democracies. So, when these fascist say they want a "republic" with no "democracy" they are saying they want us (US) to be North Korea.
“We’re not a democracy!” Is only shouted by people who don’t know what the word means.
@@lebojay The Founding Fathers explained why they left that word, "Democracy" out of the Constitution quite well. Democracy is rule by people, Republic is rule by law. The problem is that laws only work on Makers not Takers.
@@u2mister17 Please point to the Federalist paper or other source document to support your allegation
I'm 🆔️EPENDENT but TEMPORARILY reg. as D🟦 cuz we have 😡CLOSED PRIMARIES🤮 in my State. After voting, I Re-register as 🆔️... Am Subscribed to, support & Volunteer with my State's OPEN PRIMARIES Org. AND my State's Ranked Choice Voting Org. HIGHLY recommend Voters in ALL Closed Primary States to do the same. From ✌️🕊🙋♀️V.J. (Retired Onsite Equine Ride & Handle Coach)
Every time MTG lies an angel gets its wings!
There are already far too many wings up there thanks to Trump.
My pronoun is MAGA Snatch