1. This article will take the better part of a day to digest and understand. 🙂 Those fascinated by the inner bowels of the mathematical side of statistics will have a lot to chew on here. I was struck by the following conclusion he reached, which ought to be of great interest to people in the 3rd party world:

   “Our country has done a poor job maintaining its political parties. We pay dearly for our negligence. Every two years, we complain about non-competitive congressional elections. In between elections, we complain that members of Congress are irresponsible and unresponsive. We ask, why is Congress broken? Perhaps it is because the parties – the greatest mechanisms ever invented for managing governmental agents – have been stripped of their power. They have been given over to what scholars call “candidate control.” Candidates are not responsible to the parties and the voters they represent. Instead, the parties are in service to the candidates. There is no doubt that the parties of the 19th and early 20th centuries were malfunctioning, corrupt, and irresponsible. But rather than reform them, we decimated them.”

2. One more math person who is brain dead about ANTI-Democracy gerrymanders (producing indirect minority rule) and plurality nominations (producing the nonstop crop of legislative body extremist left/right MORONS since official primaries came along in the late 1880s (repeat late 1880s) — 120 plus years of EVIL ROT.

   Uniform definition of Elector NOW.

   100 percent P.R. for legislative bodies NOW.

   Approval Voting for elected executive offices and all judges NOW.

   NO parties, NO primaries, NO caucuses, NO conventions — ALL super-dangerous STONE AGE stuff.

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