The problem with elections in the USA

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[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Dec-18-00 AT 05:36PM (GMT)[p]The problem with elections in the USA is the winner take all system. Here in Sweden, mostly there are minority governments. That is, one party needs to cooperate with one or more others to get majority.

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That, and that they have "he who gets the majority in one state takes that whole state" so they don't know if it's democratic.
 
>The problem with elections in the
>USA is the winner take
>all system. Here in Sweden,
>mostly there are minority governments.
>That is, one party needs
>to cooperate with one or
>more others to get majority.

The parties in Sweden probably aren't as defined as the two major ones in the USA. If you have a whole bunch of small parties of equal stature they need to conglomerate (stick together) to work out. In the USA there are two major parties: the Republicans and Democrats. Both are powerful enough to not need as much support from smaller parties.

Sometimes however the two major parties benefit greatly when a party candidate from another party with a substantial amount of voters steps down and gives his support for the other parties. Usually that isn't the case though.

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>That, and that they have "he
>who gets the majority in
>one state takes that whole
>state" so they don't know
>if it's democratic.

The electoral college? That's more to give smaller states *some* voice instead of having candidates hover around population centers like New York City or Chicago. It's an artifact of the colonial times, but despite being ridiculed, will probably never be amended because small states still want their voice in choosing the president.

Take for example a place like Rhode Island which is a tiny state. They have four electoral votes. Without the electoral college, they'd probably be more ignored than they are now.

However I don't see why the entire state goes to a candidate rather than splitting up the electoral votes to represent the vote percentages. Maybe it's easier when you have 1/3 Prez 1, 1/3 Prez2 and 1/3 Prez 3 and only four electoral votes.

-Xotor-

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Ahh, but here in Sweden the parties ARE fuzzing about the mayor cities, BUT. In our parlament the "Riksdagen" we have 349 seats. Each city or area has a certain number of seats accordingly to how big they are but there are are also some of these 349 seats that are "fairness"-seats so if you get 14% in the election you get 14% of the 349 seats ergo 48.86 seats. Any questions?
raniE where are you from? I'm from Storvreta, north of Uppsala.
P.S Xotor in another post on the FO3 suggestion board you had a link to a very interesting site about the facts and myths of nuclear war. Do you know who wrote it?

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>Ahh, but here in Sweden the
>parties ARE fuzzing about the
>mayor cities, BUT. In our
>parlament the "Riksdagen" we have
>349 seats. Each city or
>area has a certain number
>of seats accordingly to how
>big they are but there
>are are also some of
>these 349 seats that are
>"fairness"-seats so if you get
>14% in the election you
>get 14% of the 349
>seats ergo 48.86 seats. Any
>questions?

Just one: How do you slice up a person into a fraction? :)

The USA has states, each state elects its own officials for congress. Each state receives two senators and a number of House of Representative reps that reflects the population of the state they represent (ideally). They are chosen by the people at the state level and (to my knowledge) there may be a mix of parties for the representatives, not an all-or-nothing vote for a party.

>P.S Xotor in another post on
>the FO3 suggestion board you
>had a link to a
>very interesting site about the
>facts and myths of nuclear
>war. Do you know who
>wrote it?

According to the page, Cresson Kearny. You can go to the link at, http://www.oism.org/nwss/s73p912.htm. Pretty informative.

-Xotor-

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