Comments | randwolf: Fixing the US political system

randwolf

Fixing the US political system

Apr 19, 2008 21:31

This inspired by remarks in catsittingstill's journal:

( Non-partisan and you still don't have to read it )

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Plurality voting?? masterdebate April 20 2008, 05:44:15 UTC

The United States doesn't have a plurality voting system. We have a two-party system. Plurality elections have more than two parties running, for example in the UK, the Labor* party, the Liberal party, and the Conservative Party, respectfully.

Re: Plurality voting? randwolf April 20 2008, 06:05:02 UTC

I think you are confusing plurality voting--where the candidate with the most votes wins, even if there is no majority--with proportional representation, where coalitions of parties of various sizes form ruling and opposition groups in the legislature. I've never seen a US ballot with only two parties on it.

Whatever it is, I'm against it. acrobatty April 22 2008, 04:30:13 UTC

Hi -- a mutual Friend linked your post, which is interesting but I disagree with at least half of it ( ... )

Re: Whatever it is, I'm against it. randwolf April 22 2008, 05:13:33 UTC

Thank you for your reply; I'm glad someone is reading.

The fairness doctrine used to work well enough, though I agree there is some risk; "Experts dispute shape of earth." I hate having the FCC exercising editorial control, period, but what we've got now is worse ( ... )