Ezra Klein, Andrew Sullivan endorse ranked choice voting
Ezra Klein, a New York Times columnist and host of The Ezra Klein Show, recently endorsed ranked choice voting (RCV) in an interview on Real Time With Bill Maher. Klein was joined in his support for RCV by conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan; Klein and Sullivan join dozens of political commentators from across the political spectrum who have endorsed RCV.
In the interview, the liberal Klein and conservative Sullivan both explained how RCV can deliver consensus winners who are accountable to a majority of voters, instead of those who cater only to a small base:
With ranked choice in a general election, you can have a lot of different candidates going – or in a primary you can have a lot of different candidates – and you’re ranking through them… If everybody has the same second choice, but people are split between three more extreme first choices, you might get that second consensus candidate as the winner…
Ranked choice voting is a good idea, we should do it.
– Ezra Klein
Sullivan is a Washington, DC resident, and expressed his excitement about RCV coming to the nation’s capital after DC voters passed the reform by a 73-27% margin in November 2024:
The thing I like, and we’re just about to get it in DC, is ranked choice voting: 1-2-3…. You get a consensus candidate.
– Andrew Sullivan
Ezra Klein and Andrew Sullivan are just the latest political commentators to endorse ranked choice voting. Others include Last Week Tonight host John Oliver, conservative columnist and author Charlie Sykes, and The View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin.
