We have long advocated here the transformation from plurality or winner take all voting to Instant Runoff or Ranked Choice Voting (IRV or RCV). This is the best way to overcome the limitations of Polarized Politics. Term limits will have little or no effect on our polarization. The same play will continue with a substitute player spouting the same lines as before.

The Academy Awards this year (better known, of course, as the Oscars) not only have doubled the number of films up for best motion picture. The Academy is using RCV to determine the award winners.

FairVote.org notified me FairVoteMinnesota has provided a sample ballot for the Oscars so you can have a clearer idea of how IRV/RCV would work. Check it out at this link.

http://www.fairvotemn.org/

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One of the annoyances I have listening to political discussions nowadays is the seeming inability to acknowledge the reality of constraints in the proposing of solutions to the nation’s problems. I don’t have a problem with a point of view being expressed, but at some point it seems to me advocates need to realize (and explain to their constituents) they simply cannot get to where they want to go from where they are now.

Let’s talk about an historical real world non-political example to illustrate the point.

In the early 1980’s, the US Army began to introduce a new combat vehicle to its inventory. The M2/3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle System came in two basic configurations. The M2 was an Infantry Carrier, while the M3 was designed for Cavalry. The exterior differences between the two were minor. The primary difference was in the internal configuration. The two prime reasons for the similarities externally are these.

First, one of the purposes of Cavalry is . . .

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