Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Let's try an ice cream analogy, shall we? [View all]SidDithers
(44,228 posts)but they could only order one flavour, and they wouldn't place the order until one flavour had been chosen by 50% of the people.
So, after everyone submits their first choice, the most popular flavor is, say, vanilla, which is the favorite of 30% of the people. Then comes chocolate with 20, and strawberry with 15, and so on.
Why should the 30% of the people who prefer vanilla claim that vanilla should be the flavour ordered, when vanilla doesn't yet have the support of 50% of the party guests?
So a few flavours are eliminated, and then the party guests are polled again.
Now, Vanilla gets 35% support, but everyone who wanted strawberry and pistachio and pralines and cream have decided that they'd rather have chocolate than vanilla, and chocolate now has the support of 50% of the party guests.
So the will of the people is that chocolate is the flavour to be ordered, and vanilla can go back to being an independent Senator from a tiny New England state.
It's almost like a caucus, which fans of vanilla apparently love.
Sid
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided