How does the American voting system work?
NO! Our Constitution owes to the "Continental Congress." Very simply, the choice was between a loosely connected federation of independent nation-states and independent nations. There was no desire to duplicate the UK parliament. (President) Jefferson was a genius; (President) Madison was more an independent states/nations person. Jefferson argued that the Bill of Rights was unnecessary. That is, the Federal government was sufficiently limited by the Constitution to prevent Federal tyranny. Madison argued the opposite. Madison is seen as the father of our Bill of Rights. Today, many Americans regret that the Bill of Rights didn't go farther and are grateful it even exists. In looking at the current American government, you must understand that original tension between our two greatest founders.Thanks that is really informative and interesting, from a small country perspective I didnt really understand why you have the system you do, now it makes sense. Do you think the upper house was a throw off from the UK having two houses (parliament and the lords?).
As I mentioned, our primary/caucus system is complex. It may look to an outsider as a national event. In reality, the system is run by the individual political parties and varies in detail state by state. In reality, one doesn't even need to run in or win a single primary or caucus to run in the national election for President.I think its something you would need to be brought up with to fully understand how it works, but considering the size of the States it does make sense. The one big thing I like is the way the debates are held, over here they were really messed up last time and in my opinion abused.
The system is a little funny.Ok a non political, political thread!! Be warned NO talk of politics as such I want to know something specific.
How does the American voting system work? I have been trying to follow it as its pretty fascinating, I like the debates better than the way we have introduced debates. But I dont understand the primaries etc. So how does the actual work?? I am not interested in things like the guy with the most money wins, or X person is better than Y. I can make my own mind up on that ****, so purely a structural question about the system and how the voting works.
At first glance it looks similar to ours where you have regions and the party who gets X number of votes past a certain point wins (proved very unfair last time). As we dont have a president our system is different and the 'other' players (MP's) play a bigger part (so it seems).
One last time..PLEASE NO POLITICAL POINT SCORING!
We have parish boundaries etc which is really similar to your boundaries. These have often been tweaked to give one side or other an advantage. Because of the system and first past the post principle, the boundaries can make a big difference with the smallest of changes. The other current trick at the moment is one party are trying to alter how the other party is funded, this would be devastating to the opposition party.The system is a little funny.
There have been 4 presidents that didn't actually win the popular vote, but won the election.
https://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/presidents-winning-without-popular-vote/
The house of representatives is also an interesting study. The districts, as they are called, are determined by the states based on population. The shape of these districts are often manipulated to the advantage of one party or the other or sometimes even to try and keep the same people in power on both sides. Here is a map of one of the worst ones.
Most places the voters select their representatives, but sometimes the representatives select their voters.
Hey, the Brits settled that part of the country
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