Cyran said:
I think it might have a bigger affects than you would imagine. Not over night but over time. For example in 2024 under the french system I would of consider third party on round 1 if I knew I would of had a round 2 too vote against Trump. Since that was not the case I never even consider voting for anyone other then Harris. Over time as people see third party get more votes more and more people would become comfortable voting for them. You can call it a lie but when it been around 175 years since last time someone who was not a Democrat or Republican won until there more states that stop using winner take it all it going to be tough to convince people that someone that not Democratic or Republican have a serious shot of winning and therefore people going to choose the candidate that they believe closer to what they want. |
As I wrote, some states even have Instant Runoff. Rules can be changed. And Japan and UK as I wrote have similar systems anyways. Also it should strike you as weird that pretty much any democracy can have multiple parties, but in the US it suddenly is impossible?
