Alabama has elected a Democratic senator

[Johnw1104]

VGPolyglot said:

Johnw1104 said:

The two party system is really at fault for why this sort of thing can happen to begin with. When you neatly divide all issues between two parties, you're basically asking people to either endorse their candidate even if he's a piece of garbage, or vote for every view they don't personally ascribe to.

This "one or the other" system is about as divisive and difficult as could be in place. If there'd been more options than those two people would have jumped off the Roy bandwagon long before.

Still, I'm a little surprised he lost... it was clearly a toss-up, but it must have killed a lot of Alabama voters inside to either abstain or vote for the democratic option.

I think that even if another viable party came, it'd still eventually transition back to the two-party system because of the way voting works and people doing strategic voting.

Well it definitely would with the current system in place, but that's due to a long list of factors from the length of the campaigning period to the insane amounts of money spent on campaigning as well as the difficulty involved in getting on the ballot. If there's one thing both parties have happily cooperated with it's maintaining a structure in which no one from outside of either party has a realistic chance of actually winning the presidency and most senatorial/house seats, as the money and requisite backing from those already in power simply isn't there.