It’s easy to get locked into the ‘vote-splitting’ narrative during federal elections.
Most analysts, pundits, and commentators – myself included – find it easy to talk about vote splitting because it’s such a simple narrative when looking at polls.
One party goes up, another party goes down, margins rise, margins fall.
And when parties on a similar side of the spectrum move in the polls, ‘vote-splitting’ is the quickest way to describe the potential impact.
However, when we think more deeply about it, ‘vote-splitting’ is a tired and anti-democratic narrative.
