• king_comrade@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      No matter what choices or actions are made your next king will be either a Democrat or a republican. You never had a choice, you will never have a choice, for as long as you accept this one.

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      2 days ago

      What are “primaries” and how do they supposedly change the options?

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        1 day ago

        A primary election is how the two options are selected. By having the general be a choice between two parties it reduces noise from splitting the vote. The primary election is how the candidates from each party are chosen.

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            Each state and party runs their own, so I guess it depends. In Washington State we made the primary election run the same as the general: there’s a list of candidates with party affiliations, and the two with the most votes progress to the general in November.

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                22 hours ago

                There’s 50 states, and they don’t all do it the same way. Each state has 2 senators, 1-52 representatives, etc. Then there’s national elections where a small pool of candidates is voted on by the entire country, but which names appear on which ballots and how depends on the county you’re voting in.

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                    6 hours ago

                    No, you were just very confused and it’s a lot of assumptions to rethink.

                    Each county runs their own elections. It’s not obfuscated, it’s federated.