[s1artibartfast]

How does more voting resolve anything? Split up fans are still split opinions and bad politicians are still bad politicians. A 51 49 election still has the same outcome if 10 million or 100 million people voted. It seems to me that people will need to not only vote but change their voting criteria

[wat10000]

I'm specifically thinking of the primaries here, where you often have more than two candidates and it's not a 51/49 split. I think it's very likely that the people who currently sit out the primaries would vote differently from the people who show up. It's a pretty small minority who vote in primaries, and those who do will tend to be a lot more politically active than average.

Far too many people complain about the bad candidates in the general, and don't do the most basic thing to influence that.

[s1artibartfast]

Ah. One of the various forms of ranked choice or approval voting in the general would also solve this.

I agree that mixing of the party primary system and the governmental election process is a problem leading to dominance of finge views.