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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mama Bear who wrote (13962)	9/22/1998 10:40:00 PM
From: Ploni	Respond to of 18691

OT I'm not sure who came up with the incorrect idea that the US is supposed to be a 2 party system. I think it just works out that way because we vote for an individual President, and individual Congressmen/women, and whoever gets the most votes wins it all. In Parliamentary countries the citizens vote for the parties best matching their outlook, and the parties then win so many seats in Parliament. (I guess the party leadership determines who fills those seats.) So you might end up with the Conservative party winning 30%, and the Liberal party winning 30%, and the Libertarians winning 10%, and the Green party winning 10%, and a religious party winning 5%, etc. But in our winner-take-all system, 10% of the vote means you win 0% of the seats in Congress, and that by itself leads people to concentrate their votes in the two largest parties.