fptp

This came up in another thread and I thought discussing this topic merited it's very own thread. No, no and furthermore. No. The US, like the UK, needs a strong voting system. The two party system is fundamentally broken and the FPTP voting system that we use gives us two party politics...

Contrary to how I felt in the last few years, I have recently become an increasing fan of FPTP as a method of electing representatives. I used to see FPTP as disenfranchising thousands of voters but have since realised that rather than being disenfranchised, those voters simply lose as we all do...