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Author Topic: American Election Megathread - It's Over  (Read 688454 times)

Eagle_eye

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7965 on: November 04, 2012, 08:59:37 pm »

So..

Why is there no movement for ranked candidates voting or whatever it's called in the US? Our electoral system is so horribly screwed up you would think Americans would be pushing for it harder than anyone.
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« Reply #7966 on: November 04, 2012, 09:04:46 pm »

Because no one cares about anything except their own side winning - the only people who would want it are the sides that will never have enough power to implement it, obviously.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7967 on: November 04, 2012, 09:44:20 pm »

So..

Why is there no movement for ranked candidates voting or whatever it's called in the US? Our electoral system is so horribly screwed up you would think Americans would be pushing for it harder than anyone.
Instant runoff voting. In a two-party system, who doesn't crush it? And how much clout does that party have?

Our politicians are playing with fire. America currently has a strong tradition of stability, maintaining stability. I think the news explained the danger of this fire with the Florida Gore situation. I'm not sure that if Dems pull a Florida that we won't have blood on the street this time. And third parties and moderates are locked out, because we don't want election spoilers and the powerful don't want reform.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7968 on: November 04, 2012, 09:51:02 pm »

So..

Why is there no movement for ranked candidates voting or whatever it's called in the US? Our electoral system is so horribly screwed up you would think Americans would be pushing for it harder than anyone.
Instant runoff voting. In a two-party system, who doesn't crush it? And how much clout does that party have?

Our politicians are playing with fire. America currently has a strong tradition of stability, maintaining stability. I think the news explained the danger of this fire with the Florida Gore situation. I'm not sure that if Dems pull a Florida that we won't have blood on the street this time. And third parties and moderates are locked out, because we don't want election spoilers and the powerful don't want reform.
Considering how hated Obama is, Quite possibly.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7969 on: November 04, 2012, 09:57:11 pm »

Because no one cares about anything except their own side winning - the only people who would want it are the sides that will never have enough power to implement it, obviously.
Thats not true, I think that if a few minutes was spent explaining it to the average voter, 75% of them would accept and agree with it.
Those in power though will never implement it, since it both threatens their job as well as weakening the party they are part of.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7970 on: November 04, 2012, 10:37:07 pm »

Personally, I think the Republican party just needs to collapse under the combined weight of its' own hypocrisy and strikingly different factions (eg social conservatives, Ron Paul style libertarians and centrists).
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7971 on: November 04, 2012, 10:44:57 pm »

So how long till the world ends or the voting to finish, whatever it's called?
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« Reply #7972 on: November 04, 2012, 10:47:48 pm »

Election's Tuesday, the world doesn't end for a couple of weeks.
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« Reply #7973 on: November 04, 2012, 10:52:05 pm »

I got it backwards then. I thought the world ends on Tuesday.
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« Reply #7974 on: November 04, 2012, 10:52:12 pm »

Election's Tuesday, the world doesn't end for a couple of weeks.

Elegantly put.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7975 on: November 05, 2012, 12:06:50 am »

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7976 on: November 05, 2012, 12:17:00 am »

Man, I would have had fun making legal threats against them if I had been there. It would have been utterly bombastic and in my STADIUM ANNOUNCER VOICE TWO THOUSSSANNNNNNNNNDDDDDD!!!!
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7977 on: November 05, 2012, 12:36:16 am »

Man, I would have had fun making legal threats against them if I had been there. It would have been utterly bombastic and in my STADIUM ANNOUNCER VOICE TWO THOUSSSANNNNNNNNNDDDDDD!!!!

If you had been there, you would have been planning on voting for Romney. Are you sure that's worth a few BRIAN BLESSED moments? :P
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« Reply #7978 on: November 05, 2012, 12:55:01 am »

Don't be silly, I can infiltrate the political rally of a candidate I don't like.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7979 on: November 05, 2012, 04:37:51 am »

Don't be silly, I can infiltrate the political rally of a candidate I don't like.

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