Voters looking at their ballot always see Split Ticket as an option.
Consider today. The fiasco of the primary, that we end up with two dirty old men after all that affirmative acting? Dealing with California plots? Wo wants to bail Illinois?
Perfect time to split the ticket. The disgust vote, I love the concept, a none of the above hedge to limit losses. The voter can eliminate voter's regret, always ready to say,'"Hey, don't blame me, I voted Split Ticket". The insurance against yet another Swamp blunder.
The Split Ticket voter never wants office, they think the Swamp is three feet of sewage everywhere, a foul place. So the candidate can only be chosen at random, and paid off because they get a whole lot of chaos with no return. It is he pure anarchist party, the closest they want to government is to stop it. Anarchists are most effective when they are a credible, but avoidable threat.
The Split Ticket party would keep their candidate unselected until the eve of the election, then pick their guy from a basket. The basket is a risk adjusted group of random individuals who might accept a reasonable fee to be candidate for the evening. They would specifically run on the idea of just losing but holding a margin, the disgust vote. Getting 5% is a loss, betting 9% likely a gain, running for third, just ahead of the libertarian. If the popularity of the part grew say to 20%, the party would need to campaign against itself. The campaign would be: "It is the voter's fault for voting chaos", coming from the chaos party. It is perfect in every way, we need to automate this party, its function seems simple. e enable it, make it part of a general election statistics platform. Pre voters checking the latest polls and getting disgusted would join the chaos party, on line at the site, and immediately change the odds, meet the Markov conditions. Like voting for Senator Tie Vote on the 538 site.
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