Republic of Canada

Should Canada Go Republic?

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 53.3%
  • No

    Votes: 6 40.0%
  • Maybe so

    Votes: 1 6.7%

  • Total voters
    15

WLDB

Senate Member
Jun 24, 2011
6,182
0
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Ottawa
Is the U.S. system better than ours? They got to vote for Prez and hate him anyway!

If that were true he wouldnt have been able to win. A lot of voters may regret their decision to vote for him but thats their own problem. They made their bed. If you take into account people who voted for Romney, other candidates or didnt vote at all you would probably see that more people didnt vote for him than did. Which isnt much different from here in a way. 38% can get you a majority here which is a bit odd. Both systems have their problems.

The ones that didn't vote for him hated him long before the vote. One of the unfortunate problems with a two party system is that there is not enough candidates to spread the hate around. With our multi party politics everyone can find a politician to hate.

They have plenty of other parties that just dont have the resources to truly compete. I dont get why. If I were an American I dont think I could ever vote for the Democrats or Republicans. Given the mess the both of them have made over and over again I dont know why anyone does vote for them rather than looking around for something better. Maybe there isnt anything much better but taking a chance on a third party of some sort couldnt hurt.
 

JLM

Hall of Fame Member
Nov 27, 2008
75,301
548
113
Vernon, B.C.
If that were true he wouldnt have been able to win. A lot of voters may regret their decision to vote for him but thats their own problem. They made their bed. If you take into account people who voted for Romney, other candidates or didnt vote at all you would probably see that more people didnt vote for him than did. Which isnt much different from here in a way. 38% can get you a majority here which is a bit odd. Both systems have their problems.

When there are 3 or more parties 34% could conceivably get you a win, not very often but remotely possible.
 

taxslave

Hall of Fame Member
Nov 25, 2008
36,362
4,340
113
Vancouver Island
When there are 3 or more parties 34% could conceivably get you a win, not very often but remotely possible.
In many places where the leader is elected independent of the representatives they have some kind of run off or priority vote so you get first second and third choice and all the votes are added that way.
 

Blackleaf

Hall of Fame Member
Oct 9, 2004
49,927
1,910
113
Oh yeah. Before I forget:

Happy Accession Day, Ma'am!

I hope you reign over Britain, Canada and your 14 other Realms for years to come.