Baloney. Why isn't it democratic? We have had Presidents who have been elected with less than 50% of the popular vote. European democracies with parliamentary governments have multiple parties.
More and more Americans are becoming frustrated with our two party system. What we have now is really one party with two wings--Dem and Rep.
It’s not baloney. You need to have a run-off, a multiple-choice ballot, or a ranked-choice ballot to have any idea what voters’ intent was. If 45% wanted the Dem but 55% would have taken either the libertarian or Republican over the Dem, but split the vote between them, then it’s undemocratic to let the Dem take office. Voting is about what the majority wants.
This is not pro or anti-third party. A run-off could benefit the third party just as easily as the Republican or Democrat. Run-offs arguably help the third party more, because all they have to do is come in second in order to get a chance to go head-to-head against just one of the major candidates. But the real issue is to require a majority of the voters to vote for the winner, not merely a plurality.
The other problem is that not requiring a majority to sign on to the winner opens up the potential for a more and more fringe candidate to win if the race has enough candidates. If a communist candidate can get 21% of the vote in a 5-man race, then he could win the election. Even though the other 79% might never have voted for him. No one should be given office without 50% of the public voting expressing support for them. Democracy doesn’t work otherwise and becomes a mockery or a sham potentially.