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Old 11-19-2020, 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe V. View Post
Nonsense. So one party has 4 people run. The other party has 1 candidate and that 1 candidate gets 44% of the vote who was the opposing party candidate. The other 4 then choose who they want to win over a clear winner. One party rule. Move to a parliamentarian government country if you want.
To use your example. If the only Democrat running gets 44% of the vote but the Republicans split the other 56%, you believe the best outcome is that the Democrat wins even though the majority wanted Republican rule? I believe that if 56% of voters want a Republican to win, then one of those 4 Republicans should win unless the Democrat was the second choice. An example using your 4 to 1 would be, 1 moderate Democrat is running and 1 moderate Republican, and 3 Proud Boys. It may well be that enough of those GOP moderates would like the Dem moderate as second choice pushing him over 50%. So it's not entirely about party, it is also about governance.