Alabama has elected a Democratic senator

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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.

That's the result of the shitty-ass electoral system. Doesn't have to be that way. In other countries, strategic voting is largely unnecessary.