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So, ironically, the choice we had in 2010, was between Dumb and Dumber, which is the same problem as with the two-party system. Dumb was IRV and Dumber was FPTP, and in 2010, Dumber won and Burlington Vermont lost its ranked-choice voting by about a 4% margin. I was a voice in the wilderness calling for a third way of looking at it, but the two sides were so polarized and so unwilling to separate themselves from their own talking points, that fewer voters understood, despite some newspaper analysis that did make clear that the Democrat candidate would have beaten either the GOP or the Prog in the IRV final round, had he been '''in''' the final round. Some responses to that point was simply "so what?". They didn't understand that this clearly spells out the spoiler scenario.
=== Question #5: Reforming RCV ===
'''Q: ([[User:RobLa]]) - You said in your previous answer that you opposed the 2010 repeal initiative, and that you preferred to "''reform ranked-choice voting rather than get rid of it''". What reform would you propose to ranked-choice voting?'''
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