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Most people seem to have slept through their civics classes where the mechanism of how this works was detailed. A startling number of people are under the mista
by thrower123 7y ago
Most people seem to have slept through their civics classes where the mechanism of how this works was detailed. A startling number of people are under the mistaken assumption that it is or was intended to be, a direct democracy.
- ineedasername 7y agoI think at this point, with two recent disparities between the popular vote and electoral points, most people realize there's an abstraction layer in between their vote for president. My point stands though: In the US, you vote for the specific individual you want to be president. In the UK, you do not vote for the specific person you want to be PM.