TIL ballots in Montana vary the order of candidates in order to eliminate first-listed advantage

Cool, do the electoral college next.

Haaaaank! I'm still not used to the curls lmao

They do suit him. The beard was the honestly the most difficult to get used to. Hank transformed the way walter white did.

I think it's worth highlighting the other half of the video, wild speculation and misinformation.

It's important to keep in mind, both when posting anything online and reading anything online. It's easy to see something inflammatory online, assume it's true and move on. Obviously there are trolls posting ragebait, but sometimes it's a misunderstanding posted without malice.

As always, kudos to Hank Green for rambling such coherent thoughts.

Don’t they do this in a bunch of other states too?

All of the ones i've ever lived in

And yet Republicans control Montana anyway, so I guess it doesn't make any difference.

And? It's still a good thing to do.
- I'd like to see a study that actually shows it matters if someone has one, because I'm dubious.
  
  Edit: I forgot that asking for evidence of something is the worst thing you can possibly do on the internet.
Huh? Eliminating an unfair advantage doesn't mean Democrats have to win? If I were in a race with Usain Bolt and they stopped giving him an objective advantage of a 10-meter head start, Usain Bolt would still win. It's just a fact that Republicans are broadly popular among Montana voters. Measures to reduce unfairness don't inherently mean you'll change the binary win/lose outcome of the competition (although I'll note that you're reducing Montana's 150-member legislature and its executive branch to a binary "controls/does not control").

And as other commenters have noted, the anchoring bias is an extremely prolific and well-known cognitive bias. This objectively does make things less unfair.
I know how it can feel like any steps in the right direction is like trying to swim up a waterfall, but you gotta start somewhere.

Also, ignore the haters and downvotes. It seems like a disproportionate reaction. It's not like you were being rude or a jerk.
- It’s not like you were being rude or a jerk.
  
  The rest of Lemmy appears to disagree with you.
  
  I certainly wasn't intending to be. I guess I just am one whether I want to be or not.
Tester has held a Senate seat for the last twelve years, even if he's a bit of a shitlib. Steve Bullock, another mountain west Dem, was the governor as recently as 2020. And Brian Swartzer before that.

Its been trending conservative as the O&G industry has consumed the media markets and dominated the local political scene. But these big empty states aren't naturally conservative by any means. No more than Minnesota or Michigan or Pennsylvania. They only trend that way when oil money drowns the democratic process.