> In France, they have rounds of voting, in the first round, the top two vote winners run against each other at a later date everyone else gets eliminated. <
That’s an excellent system. It eliminates the spoiler effect, and gives third parties a chance. At a minimum, we should be doing that here for presidential elections.
It would have changed the outcome of a couple of recent Presidential elections IMO.
Think back to Bill Clinton getting elected the first time, I think he got 43% of the vote, Ross Perot sucked up nearly 20% of the votes, if two weeks later after Perot was eliminated, Clinton had to run against Bush Sr the outcome might have been different.