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» Migisi - Compulsory voting - Red

In response to Compulsory voting - Red posted by pink101:
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Actually, we should be chatting about election stuff in the 'presidential vote' thread. But I'll answer here.
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Every candidate as in the ones we are voting for in the primaries? ?
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Let's just say my candidate is Huckabee, and he doesn't get enough votes in this primary. I am forced - by only 27% of eligible voters - to vote in the general election for a candidate THEY chose. Let's say Billary is chosen for the Dem ticket, and McPain for the Repubs. I vehemently oppose both, and can't bring myself to vote for either. So I stay home and don't vote. I think voter turnout would be way higher - and more representative of our voters - if we did away with primaries altogether, and every candidate appeared on the general election ballot.
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So, the winner of a national election might win with only 20% or less of the total vote?
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In the 2004 general election, what percentage of the popular vote did Bush win by? In Ohio, a measely 2.5%; a scant 4.9% in Florida; and 6.5% in Pennsylvania. Not even close to 20% in any state, or for the nation as a whole. Yet he's President.

-- posted by Migisi