[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.