Solutions III

 For Wednesday, read   Elaine Kamarck, “The Urgent Need for Peer Review in the Presidential Nominating Process,” Brookings, October 29, 2019, https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/bigideas/the-urgent-need-for-peer-review-in-the-presidential-nominating-process/

Possible only because of Utah's convention system.

Top two in 2016:  Meh!  See exit poll results

Top two in 2018:  59 percent of Republicans voted for the more liberal candidate!

In 2020:

• AD 42: Independent Chad Mayes
• Jacobs-Gomez House race

California in 2022:  Impact of top two?

Multiparty system for America: pro and con

• Voter turnout?  What accounts for differences in turnout?  Complexity of the US federal system
• Authoritarian populism?

Social Media and Polarization

Keep in mind:

• Data on social ,media use
• 75% of people in the U.S. never tweet.
• On an average weeknight in January, just 1% of U.S. adults watched primetime Fox News (2.2 million). 0.5% tuned into MSNBC (1.15 million).

But ... an "infodemic" of distrust