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The 1% Election: How Primaries Are Rigged Against Everyone ft. Chad Peace
45% of Americans now call themselves independent — more than either party. So why does Congress look nothing like the country?Today Grant talks with Chad Peace of the Independent Voter Project about the hidden math behind our elections: how closed primaries, gerrymandering, and plurality voting let roughly 1–2% of the electorate pick your representative before most people even show up to vote.→ Why independent voters aren't "closet partisans" — they're structurally locked out→ The New Jersey primary that half the state can't vote in→ Why Alaska now has the gold standard of elections (and why…
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