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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (20554)6/14/2007 5:17:33 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
It is true that our current system appears to prevent the impact of multiple parties on the electoral system. The Electoral College only says that a person must have 270 votes to win, it does not require they all come from one party.

Requiring 270 to win, doesn't require them to all be from one party, but there is a certain natural push in that direction just from the basic rules (followed of course by a more "artificial" push from the specific measures the parties take to re-enforce their position).

The majority party of the Senate was chosen including an "independent" former democrat from Connecticut and a weasel from Vermont who took Republican money to get elected and then switched allegiance while lying about his independence.

But they are both associated with a major party. In this case both Democrats. One of them rose to prominence as a Democrat, and in an unusual circumstance didn't win the primary, but won the election with the support of Democrats. The other reached his station with the support on one major party, and then essentially switched to the other, with "independent" being more of a fig leaf than something really meaningful.

Can you find any current or recent senator that was truly independent? Never running for office as a member of each major party, and not "caucusing" with either party?
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