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> The biggest problem we have today is that uninformed people form such a large percentage of the voting pool. Considering that 90% of voters have basically ze
by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
> The biggest problem we have today is that uninformed people form such a large percentage of the voting pool.
Considering that 90% of voters have basically zero influence on the government, I think we wish that was our biggest problem.
- mason240 11y ago51% of the voters control 100% of government.
- pc86 11y agoI would argue that voters have very little control over the courts, except where judges are elected (such as my state, which is a nightmare). Not to mention that voter influence on bureaucrats is all but nil. 51% of the voters may control 100% of the legislature (excluding staff) and executive (excluding appointees) but most of the government is not directly accountable to the voting populace.
- wernercd 11y agoExcept... not really: https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/popular-vote/ https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/popular-v... As often as not, the winner doesn't have 50%+... and, in some circumstances, the "Winner" has fewer popular votes: Bush in 2000 had 47.8 to Gores 48.3 yet Bush got more Electoral Votes