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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Has its flaws is an understatement. Plurality voting (first-past-the-post) is, quite easily, one of the worst, if not the worst voting method available. Worse yet, this is something that has been known for quite a long time but we've still done almost nothing about it, here and elsewhere around the world. The electoral college, while obviously imperfect, is mostly a scapegoat for the real problem in our elections, which is plurality voting.
Anyway, I just wanted to pop in here and point that out, because I'm not a foreigner so I'll leave it at that.
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I just don't understand. what is plurality voting? I think we have first past the post here, but not sure of what the implications are.
All I know is that we have representatives who represent a particular party. They run for election in an electoral district (riding) which is represented based on size of population. Who ever gets the most votes (this is the democratic part) gets to represent the electoral district in Parliament (works the same way in provincial as federal elections). Depending on the party that elects the most number of representatives, the makeup of Parliament will be constituted with a majority one way (just a shade to the right of centre or conservative) or another (just a shade to the left of centre or liberal).
I think that to Americans, both of our major parties are left of their centre. But to, let's say the French, both of our parties are to the right of their centre.
I don't get what is intrinsically wrong with this system. Should we be voting without parties?
As far as the American candidates go, I have concern about their dredging up NAFTA. After all the pain in adjusting to it, I would be concerned that the now entrenched business processes will suffer for yet another change. And it's not like the Americans paid any attention to NAFTA if disputes went against them anyways.
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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
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On the other side, you have a true war hero married to a woman with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship.
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Big chest??? really? I have to pay more attention. Beer too? sounds like somebody chose right.