Excuse me, but…
Aren’t Hillary and Barack supposed to be on the same side?
I mean, you have to go around the whole country, spending a zillion dollars, having separate elections in X number of states just to work out who’s going to lead a party? Where I come from, all that crap is sorted out behind closed doors….
American politics does my head in.
Tell me about it. It’s ridiculous. I think Americans just love a good spectacle. By comparison our elections are pretty boring but hey, at least they’re effective and honest and we end up voting the actual party we want in. Cough.
When you think about it, regardless of where the money is coming from, it’s disgusting to see all that go to waste on two people battling it out in the media. It’s pathetic. Basically, their system = shit.
AR - If we (in Australia) get the party we actually vote for how is it that at several elections now, including one won by Howard’s Liberals in 1998, the winning party got less votes than the losing party? Add to that the fact that we, unlike the Americans, can’t vote for our Head of State; who currently is a geriatric woman living in another country who also happens to be the Head of State for several other countries, and please don’t give me that Monarchist crap about the Governor General being our Head of State.
The one saving grace, for me, of the Australian electoral system is that we have preferential voting, unfortunately it is an under used, misunderstood tool for the electorate that the parties are able to manipulate to their advantage.
Viva la Republique!
UPDATE: If Americans had preferential voting then Gore would have won in Florida with or without any hanging chads.
