Frankly, I’m beginning to see how dictatorships happen. The public won’t get involved, especially violently, and they are too complacent or agree. I truly feel doomed. “We the People” are not the same as our Founding Fathers. The Dems won by educating the youngsters & minorities.
The basic political theory behind the single member district is that there will be pretty much just 2 parties, both competing for the winning number which is 50% plus 1 more voter!
The way that's achieved is through coalitions of similarly oriented voters ~ if not like-minded voters.
We only needed a couple of hundred thousand more voters in key states to win the Presidency ~ but the Mittbots forgot to campaign, and then, they forgot to get those voters registered and to the polls.
My goodness this is such a simple game ~ not at all like the NFL or NCAA basketball pairings ~ just two rules, build up a body of voters, get them out to vote.
There's nothing more to it and we managed to nominate a guy whose support team didn't know the most basic of rules.
Well, that and they believed the polls ~ polling doesn't work anymore BTW ~ so you have to redouble your efforts to get out your own voters to vote for you!
Did you know Romney was telling naive rich donors that he was after the 10% of undecided moderate voters in the middle ~ and this in a political system with NO CENTER AT ALL!