And he didn't have a problem reducing polling stations in heavily minority areas.

Racist.

But he still adheres to most of their extreme positions.

for potus.

Well, excuse me, but do ALL of these goopers believe gawd calls them to rule? Seriously?

I really really really don't want to live anywhere that the leaders think gawd told them to rule the rest of us. Period.

And that's not because I believe gawd has some kind of angle or influence, It's because there is no gawd and these fools are delusional.

Crazy.

Then I could see party mattering much, much less.

We have jungle primaries in California and Louisiana. The states are no less partisan.

Nebraska has a nominally non-partisan legislature. They are still partisan enough to gerrymander their house districts, making some adjustments after Obama won an electoral vote there in 2008.

I think that the main issue is left and right. Or at this point I should say center-left and right. The names of the parties, or even their existence, are secondary.

I do think that jungle primaries and non-party ID ballots could have an impact, in theory, but that impact would be completely overwhelmed by other factors currently playing out in our society.

In my own town, the elections are officially nonpartisan but the mayor and council govern as if it is partisan.

They're not allowed to have a party ID on the ballot, but my county Democratic party asks people to run for these seats (not sure if the GOP does as I don't get their emails).

conservatives win often with a minority of the vote and govern for years.

The jungle primary narrows the field to two, who then face off.

And I can't see it working here.

with the system we have now it's not likely that there will ever be more than two viable parties. In a parliamentary system it's possible to form coalitions of multiple parties because people vote for seats in the parliament, and the party or coalition with the most seats can control the introduction and passage of legislation. The prime minister is also a member of the parliament and is not separate from it. There is no separation of powers as in our system; the executive, which is really just the majority party or coalition, derives its powers from the legislature. I don't think it could be made to work in our existing system.

Many advantages that are hard for third parties but easy for big established parties that got a lot of votes in the last election.

Instead of multiple parties and coalition building after elections, the more likely outcome will be continued intra-party fights among organized, party-like factions for control of the party machinery during election cycles.

No amount of wishing it were not so will change that.

He's a wolf in sheep's clothing and no better than any of them.

Over the last few decades, splinter parties have hurt Dems far more than Repubs. If John-boy wants to set up another 'conservative' leaning party, I say: Go for it!

That's the way I read it anyway. What a bunch of bullshit.