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It's much more complicated than that those ostensible 'affiliations' indicate. Many Trump voters do not identify as 'Republicans'. Don't assume elections are 'r
by jollybean 5y ago
It's much more complicated than that those ostensible 'affiliations' indicate. Many Trump voters do not identify as 'Republicans'. Don't assume elections are 'rigged' because of some uneasy data. There are obviously specific issues with voting but even then it's more nuanced.
- UnpossibleJim 5y agoI just think of Perot, after which the voting rules, or rather the percentages for for entry were changed. Also the association running the debates went from the League of Women Voters to the Commission on Presidential Debates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_debates#:~:text=The%20same%20year%20the%20two,Committee%20and%20Republican%20National%20Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_deb.... That's when it changed from 2% to 5%, and on and on. It was the Perot incidents that make me lean towards a "rigged" system, more than anything, really.
- Dylan16807 5y agoFirst past the post, plus two dominant parties, has such severe negative effects that "rigged" is a reasonable way to talk about it.
- jollybean 5y agoFirst past the post is not 'rigged' is just one way of having elections.