Politico accidentally admits ranked choice voting helps Democrats

Ranked Choice Voting has been the subject of much controversy especially this year. Many Republicans have charged that such a system favors the Democrats. Ironically it is the liberal Politico that seems to have accidentally validated that charge.

On Wednesday Politico published a story by Steve Shepard about Republican candidates surging in the midterm election polls, “A slate of races now lean Republican in our latest forecast update.” The story begins with a report on how the Red Wave in that election is beginning to look much more likely:

The GOP is tantalizingly close to its goal of taking the House majority in three weeks, after an at-times-uneven, two-year campaign to flip the chamber.