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harmonywho
· 9 years ago
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Because two political parties and it's simpler to listen to two people debating rather than fifty
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americassuperhero
· 9 years ago
And, you know, 50 states... But what do I know?
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deleted
· 9 years ago
You do know it's narrowed down from a lot more than two right??
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guest
· 9 years ago
Clearly you've never voted before.
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flowerkiller
· 9 years ago
Because there are two main popular parties and a majority of people vote for them believing the smaller parties will never win so they might as well vote for the lesser of two evils...which sucks.
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deleted
· 9 years ago
You also don't know much about politics.... There's not just one candidate for each party there are many Democrats and Republicans and others that run.
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flowerkiller
· 9 years ago
Yeah...I knew that too but I was discussing parties...not candidates.
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deleted
· 9 years ago
The post says two people there still more than on candidate per party...
flowerkiller
· 9 years ago
Thats fantastic. I was still talking about parties.
deleted
· 9 years ago
So what were you answering?
flowerkiller
· 9 years ago
Same thing you were but for different reasons. Apparently you read this and saw two parties with many candidates...I saw many parties with many candidates. I saw this because it says two people...and the political party has party endorsed candidates in the general election. Hence two people since there are two main parties. And there are so many more that get pushed to the side from smaller parties.
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deleted
· 9 years ago
No I saw it as what it said two people and before you commented I said "You do know it's narrowed down from a lot more than two right??" Has nothing to do with parties.... I see it as the person who made it thinks were choosing from just two people start to finish
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flowerkiller
· 9 years ago
I wasn't replying to what you commented. And the 'I see it' is a opinion. We both were right. More than two parties with a ton of candidates in all of them. At least this way the poster was educated or at least tempted to do some research into finding out more about how we elect people into office. I didn't mention multiple candidates from a single party because the post already had someone mention it and it would have been redundant.
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guestwho
· 9 years ago
We actually have more choices than that in the general election. There are always at least a few oddball fringe parties running someone and a write in option. What we really need is Steve Harvey to host the election!
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deleted
· 9 years ago
There are always more than two presidential candidates as of election day. But (and I could be wrong) I THINK the only two that automatically get put on all ballots are the Republican and Democratic nominees. For everyone else, each state has its own hoops a candidate must jump through in order to be put on a ballot. It's time consuming, expensive, and in a lot of cases involves a certain number of voter signatures in that state. So, in America anybody CAN become President, but they make it hard to get access to anyone but career politicians. That's not even taking into account the Electoral College process.
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guestwho
· 9 years ago
Seems I was told different states do their ballots differently, but that's how it is here in Ohio. Actually the dems and repubs have the same kinda hoops too, it's just that they're already ready to go. I took poli-sci but it's a bit rusty.
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calmthelovelytits
· 9 years ago
Two political parties, fifty states.
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guestwho
· 9 years ago
50 states ÷ 2 political parties = 25. Each voter gets one vote. One ÷ 25 = .04. Guys we only have a 4/100ths percent chance of electing a decent president! I think we're screwed.
guest
· 9 years ago
That's not how it works - its based off of the electoral votes which are based off of the population in each state. There's a total of 538 electoral votes. California has the highest at 55 and the lowest states have 3.
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guestwho
· 9 years ago
1 ÷ 538 = .0018. IT'S WORSE THAN I THOUGHT! We only have an 18/1000ths percent chance! Yup, I'm moving to Canadia.
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guest
· 9 years ago
thats not how it works. This isn't how any of this works.
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deleted
· 9 years ago
Lol Canadia where Canadians are from
needmorec4
· 9 years ago
I wonder why there's so many political posts about murica but no othe country, and its just assumed we're talking bout murica lol. I wonder how non music and feel.
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boberto075
· 9 years ago
Am i the only one who knows who that is?
wittyusernamehere
· 9 years ago
No
