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To: RandFan

It’s a start, but three party (or more!) systems are dodgy, IMHO.


2 posted on 01/14/2025 11:24:35 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Flaming Conservative

The flaw in parliamentary systems.


3 posted on 01/14/2025 11:25:52 AM PST by Reily (a)
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To: Flaming Conservative

runoffs would fix that


5 posted on 01/14/2025 11:30:32 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Well if you think the US system is odd consider that the UK now actually has basically a six party system. In addition to Labour, Conservatives, and Reform there are the Scottish and Welsh Nationalist parties which want varying degrees of independence and the Unionist party in Northern Ireland which absolutely does not want independence or union with the Republic of Ireland to the south. Labour polled about a third of the vote in the last election and thanks to the first across the line electiopn system garnered 2/3’s of parliament and is good to go for six years despite the fact that they are currently down to about 26%. It is roughly the equivelent of Joe Biden running for president and winning 2/3s of the House and Senate still being as popular as a turd in the punch bowl.


7 posted on 01/14/2025 11:44:22 AM PST by your other brother
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