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Prolly even like in some red states as well.
The American election system has so many flaws, that I am surprised that no politician cares enough for that to change.
Things work really well here for you if you're amoral and wealthy. So like 99% of elected officials.
I saw a video of republicans outraged because someone was apparently trying to change the voting system to use ranked voting, and this would destroy the two-party system (yt link) which apparently would be a horrible thing to happen
Strange that they worship the founding fathers so much and insist that the system they put in place is perfect and must never be changed when John Adams wrote (google books link):