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Skriven 2010-01-21 18:10:48 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
   Kommentar till text 3434 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Ward stoops even lower
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21 Jan 10 08:01, Robert Bashe wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 MV>> It seems to me your system does not function very well. The system
 MV>> is presented as a shining example the the world, but to me it seems
 MV>> that your "winner takes all" system, leaves almost half the voters
 MV>> in a disgruntled mood, no matter what the outcome of the election.

 RB> I know you're talking about the electoral system (incidentally, not
 RB> all states use the "winner takes all" system), but what you write
 RB> applies to practically all elections everywhere.

What he also fails to realize is that the people vote for a candidate more
directly than they do in say, the Netherlands. Where they vote for a party
rather than a candidate, we vote for the candidate who garners votes from
each state's electoral voters. As you say, some states are winner takes
all, but many have changed from that to a percentage of electoral votes
going to the candidate with the lessor amount of votes by the people.

OTH, as was demonstrated by the Demorat party members in Congress, they
hate the Repubs so much that they tried to lock them out of the process.
Which is exactly what the O'bama ran against in 2008 (but still advocates
in the process of planning the healthcare bill). Yet, he allowed closed
door meetings (closed to the Repubs) to plan a strategy to pass the
healthcare bill that even the people didn't want. At the time they had the
votes to carry the bill and the Repubs didn't have the seats required to
filibuster that bill to death. As soon as they got that extra seat in
this weeks special election, you see the Demorats pussy footing around and
kissing the hands of the Repubs, now that they need their vote to pass
that bill.

                R\%/itt

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