if there was an election in two rounds, you would vote for whom?

[izixs]

My first vote would be for the Democrat. On the second round, my order of preference would probably be: Democrat > Green > Other (non-crazy socialist perhaps? World-Unity?) > Republican > Libertarian >Constitution

I'd love to see the dynamics that pop out of a setup like this. You'd probably still have Dems and Republicans as the primary parties, but large sections of their current coalitions would line up behind alternatives for the first round, and come home for the final.

But given the current status of the vote here... If somehow the forum is in any way representative of the larger electorate (haha, not really) it might be possible the Republicans get transplanted.

At the very least it would allow the 'My Rich guys can out spend your Rick guys' thing to play out in a very different way. You could have Ricky on the Constitution ticket, Paul on the Libertarian, Mittens on the Republican ticket, and Gingrich out in the cold for the first round of the general election. Long run I think such a runoff system would heavily favor the democrats as the only semi-organized splitters are the green party. Moderates would keep with the Democrats while the liberals go with the greens. If the Democrat running is crappy the greens get into the second round, but otherwise there is always a Democrat in round two, and they can claim to be the voice of moderation in American politics, independent of what the right coalitions claim.

Oh we can dream yes.