The US, being a duopoly, offers only two viable candidates for president in the general election. There are more choices, in the recent Republican circus 17, in the primary elections...
But is this a good way to select candidates? Since Donald Trump has all but sowed up the Republican nomination and Hillary is the presumptive Democratic nominee after the 5 states last night ... its worth wondering what got them elected.
In the case of Donald Trump it was a third to half of the following ... In New York he got most of the delegates with only 4 and half percent of the eligible voting population.... (524.000 votes). Clinton got 1, 054,000. (about 9%) .
And this turnout reflects what? In the Republican primaries,Nate Silver the low turnout in the more recent primaries to the discouragement of anti-Trump voters.Discourage at the prospect of helping beat Trump and discouragment at the quality of the alternatives to Trump...
Would the system benefit from a change to a national primary vote on one day, with the outcome determined by majority .... and if no one gets a majority a runoff between the top two?(like France)
Certainly the election cycle could be truncated to a national vote in April followed by a run off in May... And its got to feel and be more democratic than the caucus system or what passes for a primary in Pennsylvania...
Republican Primary Voting
STATE TURNOUT AS SHARE OF VOTING-ELIGIBLE POPULATION
New Hampshire 27.8%
Wisconsin 25.6
Alabama 23.9
Ohio 22.3
Missouri 20.7
South Carolina 20.3
Idaho 19.7
Arkansas 19.2
Mississippi 19.1
Georgia 18.8
Michigan 17.8
Tennessee 17.6
Virginia 17.0
Oklahoma 16.5
Texas 16.4
Florida 16.3
North Carolina 15.8
Pennsylvania 15.8
Illinois 15.3
Massachusetts 12.8
Vermont 12.5
Arizona 11.4
Maryland 10.6
Delaware 10.0
Louisiana 8.9
Connecticut 8.7
Rhode Island 7.8
New York 6.4
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its ... n-to-lose/
But is this a good way to select candidates? Since Donald Trump has all but sowed up the Republican nomination and Hillary is the presumptive Democratic nominee after the 5 states last night ... its worth wondering what got them elected.
In the case of Donald Trump it was a third to half of the following ... In New York he got most of the delegates with only 4 and half percent of the eligible voting population.... (524.000 votes). Clinton got 1, 054,000. (about 9%) .
And this turnout reflects what? In the Republican primaries,Nate Silver the low turnout in the more recent primaries to the discouragement of anti-Trump voters.Discourage at the prospect of helping beat Trump and discouragment at the quality of the alternatives to Trump...
Would the system benefit from a change to a national primary vote on one day, with the outcome determined by majority .... and if no one gets a majority a runoff between the top two?(like France)
Certainly the election cycle could be truncated to a national vote in April followed by a run off in May... And its got to feel and be more democratic than the caucus system or what passes for a primary in Pennsylvania...
Republican Primary Voting
STATE TURNOUT AS SHARE OF VOTING-ELIGIBLE POPULATION
New Hampshire 27.8%
Wisconsin 25.6
Alabama 23.9
Ohio 22.3
Missouri 20.7
South Carolina 20.3
Idaho 19.7
Arkansas 19.2
Mississippi 19.1
Georgia 18.8
Michigan 17.8
Tennessee 17.6
Virginia 17.0
Oklahoma 16.5
Texas 16.4
Florida 16.3
North Carolina 15.8
Pennsylvania 15.8
Illinois 15.3
Massachusetts 12.8
Vermont 12.5
Arizona 11.4
Maryland 10.6
Delaware 10.0
Louisiana 8.9
Connecticut 8.7
Rhode Island 7.8
New York 6.4
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its ... n-to-lose/