RANKED CHOICE VOTING WORKS BETTER WITH BETTER CHOICES TO RANK.

In principle, ranked choice voting might provide an electoral outcome more closely approximating the center of mass of the voters' policy preferences.

Four years ago, a moderator of a Chicago mayoral candidates' forum asked the perceived leading candidates to name a second choice.  Neither of them recommended each other: both of them suggested Lori Lightfoot.  Oops.  "Dear Lori Lightfoot: You Were a Terrible Mayor, Get Over Yourself."

Predictably, the bad-tempered box-checker, in the way of losing skippers everywhere, blamed everyone but herself for the loss.

With all due respect, Madam Soon-To-Be-Former Mayor, do please shut up. You were a terrible mayor and that’s why 87% of Chicago voters at their first opportunity pulled the lever for someone, anyone else — including five black men (one of whom made the runoff) and one other black woman.

Chicago voters didn’t wake up one morning in 2020 and realize, “Oh, no — we elected a black woman? Why did no one tell us? We must resist her at all costs!”

No, they elected a petty tyrant whose reaction to looting in the Loop and along the Mag Mile was to raise the drawbridges, and who, in the way of Democrat corona tyrants everywhere, rated a haircut in order to be the face of Chicago when everyone else was restricted to do-it-yourself haircuts.

Now, she's out, notes Stephen "Vodka Pundit" Green.  "Good riddance to a bad mayor. But will her replacement be any better?"

Not if the Moocher Coalition coalesces.  "Rejecting Lightfoot, Chicago Picks Progressive to Face School Privatizer in Mayoral Runoff."  The spin in the column that follows would embarrass a Pravda writer of the Brezhnev era.

Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party—which is backing Johnson—said late Tuesday that "the contrast in this runoff could not be clearer."

"In one corner, we have a classroom teacher and union organizer with deep community roots," said Mitchell. "In the other corner, we have conservative Paul Vallas, who is backed by the Trump-supporting Fraternal Order of Police and has never come across a public school he didn't want to gut."

Paul Vallas was the Obama administration's Secretary of Education, and he told Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, that he was not welcome in Illinois. The governor gave a speech, in one of the suburbs, to the Fraternal Order all the same.

The Chicago run-off will be on the first Tuesday in April.  We have much to look forward to.