Comment by CountSessine
5 years ago
Yes - it’s the fact that the race for the presidency is a winner-takes-all game. When Clinton lost, she didn’t get a diminished, minority, but still proportional say in the running of the government - she was completely out and Trump got everything.
The US system wasn’t engineered with the possibility of coalitions and compromise governments in mind (at least not in the Executive).
There are other countries, like France, where presidential elections have (obviously) a single winner which have nevertheless multiple parties.
If the US president was elected by the Congress would that end bipartidism? I don’t know.
French Presidential elections use run-off voting; they don't use first-past-the-post.
True, but the comment I replied to was not about that.
I thought the original setup where the vice president was whoever got the second most votes was going for that.