Voting From the Head, Not the Heart

On the Media | Aug 5, 2016

As the Democratic party and the media fret over whether the Green Party will siphon off Democratic votes come November, many are making the case for voting pragmatically rather than emotionally. But can that principle be applied on a national level? In Canada, it has been done. Hisham Abdel-Rahman, founder of Canada's Strategic Voting Project, devised a methodology and a website that showed people in various parts of the country how best to optimize their vote so as to not split the progressive bloc. And in 2015, they got results. Bob talks with Abdel-Rahman about how he came up with his voting recommendations and what the United States can learn from strategic voting. 

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