How would the Republican Primary have played out differently if the GOP had used a system of Ranked-Choice Voting, allowing voters to rank all the candidates in order?
A guess is that the establishment candidates would have spent more time taking on Trump and less time attacking each other.
In ranked-choice voting, all candidates are not only competing to be the voters' top choice but are also competing to be the voters' second and third choice.
So rather than Rubio and Bush trying to take each other down, they would have had far more incentive to both say something like, Vote for one us, but whatever you do, don't vote for Trump, and then let their surrogate Super PACs act on it, going after Trump instead of each other.
After this election, GOP leaders will almost certainly be doing some deep thinking about how they run their Primary process.
They ought to put Ranked-Choice Voting on the table. They would get fewer unpleasant surprises that way.
The good news from a FairVote survey is that Republican voters like Ranked-Choice Voting, 57 percent, say the GOP should indeed use it in its primaries.
The survey was done by the College of William and Mary and FairVote, which asked Republican voters to rank the candidates in order of preference a few weeks ago, when there were more candidates.
CLICK HERE to read the 75 page survey titled "How Better Polling Tells Us What Republican Voters Really Think" created on Feb. 18.
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote! Michael H. Drucker
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