“I would support a system where one candidate had to get 50% + 1 votes. If no candidate was able to, then there would be a runoff between the top two.”
NO! That system would succeed in allowing the large population centers to select our leaders. Since they are overwhelmingly Democrat, they would succeed in defeating the votes of flyover country which is overwhelmingly conservative!
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Then you haven’t looked at how the population is spread out. There are millions more people in suburban and rural areas than in large cities. With a 50% +1 system, you would get a runoff nearly every time.
Also with the current system, people are discouraged to vote because they think their state will go one way or the other and their vote won’t really make any difference.