[kj] OT: Powell endorses Obama

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

It'll also require structural electoral reform in the US, so that we 
have proportional representation the way some European countries do, so 
that the 3rd party candidate in the US does not perpetually play the 
spoiler.

Here, the candidate who gets the 50% of the vote + 1 one more gets to 
govern as if he had a mandate to govern all 100% f the electorate. In 
some (real) democracies, if one man gets 50% of the vote, another 
(wo)man gets 20%, and a third gets 30%, then those three get, 
respectively , representative governing power equivalent 50%, 20%, 30% 
voting ability.

But in the US, it's winner take all.

-Oliver

fluw wrote:

>

> If you don’t want to vote for either dems or repubs and you don’t you 

> like the two party system, then have you considered supporting a third 

> party with a vote for Nader. We will never get a serious third or 

> fourth party candidate until voters who are disgruntled about the two 

> party system make it possible to have a more complex group of choices.

>