T110's Sixth Summer of Love and Tolerance

The_Chieftain:   Only works to a point, i’m afraid. In California, Newsom (Very D) successfully orchestrated that his opponent in the runoff in California was a Republican, Cox. Indeed, survey says about a third of Cox’s voters didn’t plan on voting for him in the General, they only wanted to make sure that Newsom didn’t have moderate D opposition. So, Newsom is a walk-in for Governor now. Of course, the end result is no worse than the old system, but it’s not a complete fix like the transferable vote/ranked choice would be. Realistically, what the Rs need to do is accept their losses until they reinvent themselves and their candidates to become more appealing in California, not run anyone at all, and instruct the R base to vote for whichever D moderate seems most viable. Also realistically, however, there is no chance of their doing it.   As for the tank drone, I think we are a long way from viable unmanned tanks. There is no substitute for human eye judgement when determining terrain feasibility, the ‘sense’ that track is about to walk off, or the ability to quickly self recover if the estimate is in error.