{"id":2675,"date":"2010-06-11T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2010-06-11T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:05:00","slug":"sensible-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"Sensible Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get the concerns about vote splitting on the left. Given the differences between the people who vote NDP and the people who vote Liberal, I don&#8217;t think those concerns are founded but, yeah, I get them.<\/p>\n<p>So rather than lunge into a merger, why not just switch to a preferential ballot? The Liberals and NDP could still run as two separate parties. Voters could rank them 1-2 on their ballot, ending the vote split. And if they get enough seats to justify it, they could sign a working agreement, or enter into a coalition government.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see any drawbacks. If the concern is that Liberals wouldn&#8217;t rank the NDP second and New Democrats wouldn&#8217;t rank the Liberal Party second (a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/andrew-steele\/the-absurd-math-of-merger\/article1598351\/\">valid concern<\/a>)&#8230;<em>well then<\/em>&#8230;I tend to think that&#8217;s an even stronger argument <em>against<\/em> a merger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get the concerns about vote splitting on the left. Given the differences between the people who vote NDP and the people who vote Liberal, I don&#8217;t think those concerns are founded but, yeah, I get them. So rather than lunge into a merger, why not just switch to a preferential ballot? The Liberals and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}