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!
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!