I was so proud : Biden praises Mitch McConnell 02:09
Douglas Heye is the ex-deputy chief of staff to former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a GOP strategist and a CNN political commentator. Follow him on Twitter @dougheye. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN)Washington has been dysfunctional for a long time. The deep partisan divide has kept Congress from getting big things done. If we re going to change that, we ll have to do it together, especially now that the Senate is split 50-50.
Douglas Heye
It s a tall order, but as a Republican who has spent a good part of the last 30 years on Capitol Hill, I can say this: There is no politician better positioned to make this happen than Joe Biden.
Ranked-choice voting sees first test AG’s suit against NRA moves forward Garcia calls for vaccine czar
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A new system of ranked-choice voting will transform New York City’s elections, including this year s race for mayor. Now it’s about to get its first test: early voting
Instead of picking one candidate, voters
will choose up to five, ranking them in order of preference. If a candidate gets a majority of first-choice votes, they win and that’s the end of it. But if no one does, a computerized system eliminates the last-place candidate and parcels out their votes to the second choice. The process repeats itself until someone gets a majority.