[EM] why can't we have the Ranked Ballot (even IRV) for primaries?

[Raph Frank]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm
<km-elmet at broadpark.no> wrote:
> Third, the primary is not open and so
> even if a good ranked method were used, it would elect the candidate closest
> to the party's median, not that of the electorate in general.

Not necessarily.  The candidates could easily argue (as now), that
they have a better change of being elected if they are closer to the
national median.  Party voters would have to trade off getting a
candidate who reasonably represents the party's views with one who has
a reasonable change of being elected.

Another option would be to give party members 2 votes and everyone
else 1 vote.  This would give a median that is between the national
and party median.