Creative Electoral Schemes Never Work

Eric Medlin
3 min readNov 1, 2023

But politicians keep trying them.

The No Labels logo. Source: PRNewswire

The centrist political group No Labels has been working hard to terrify Democrats in recent months. Earlier this year, it announced that it was planning on launching a centrist bid for the White House. At first, the group sought to mollify Democratic leaders by promising not to run a candidate if its polling suggested that a No Labels candidate had no chance of

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Eric Medlin

I’m a writer interested in the intersections of history, ideas, and politics. I publish every week. www.twitter.com/medlinwrites