Minnesota pushes back at partisan extremes

Academic researchers say there are too many other factors -- money and media being the chief ones -- to say whether such changes would temper the ideological fervor that has defined this election season. But either way, they expect to see proposals similar to ranked choice voting and Proposition 14 spread to other states.

"Some people think it's the magic bullet -- it may or may not be," said Western Washington University political scientist Todd Donovan, an expert witness in a pending court challenge in Washington state.