Having extreme political opinion is unfortunately correlated with being politically engaged. A majority of the people who don’t have extreme opinions aren’t engaged enough for a project like this. Even in the general population a majority doesn’t vote in primaries.
I would expect that it makes more sense to focus on voting reform in individual states then to build up such a pesudo party.
I think voting reform is highly implausible, because “voting reform” has come to mean instant runoff voting, which is barely better (and probably much worse for political polarization in particular, due to the center-squeeze problem).
Not to say that “a new center” is really plausible, though ;p
Having extreme political opinion is unfortunately correlated with being politically engaged. A majority of the people who don’t have extreme opinions aren’t engaged enough for a project like this. Even in the general population a majority doesn’t vote in primaries.
I would expect that it makes more sense to focus on voting reform in individual states then to build up such a pesudo party.
I think voting reform is highly implausible, because “voting reform” has come to mean instant runoff voting, which is barely better (and probably much worse for political polarization in particular, due to the center-squeeze problem).
Not to say that “a new center” is really plausible, though ;p