I’ve posted a short Common Ground Democracy essay on the event in Austin over this past weekend at which Joe Manchin, the former Senator from (and governor of) West Virginia, embraced the fundamental principle of Condorcet Voting, called “Consensus Choice Voting” at the event–which elects the candidate whom a majority of voters prefer over each other candidate when compared head-to-head. As I say in the essay, Manchin is the most prominent politician to support Condorcet Voting as the electoral method best suited for tackling the problem of partisan polarization.