I knew about the phenomenon of protest voting, but I didn't realize till this election what terrible candidates it selects.
The only thing worse than a political insider is the sort of candidate you get when people use their vote to protest against insiders.
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and the worst is when that protest candidate gets elected (the Raggi dumpster fire in Rome is an object lesson for Italian voters)
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Seems direct election of US prez is a permanent global risk. Amazing you've manged to elect relatively sober types until now.
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parliamentary democracy ftw! Oops, Brexit.
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Obama and Sanders arguably fall into this category.
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like obama?
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It's a shame the UK had to learn that the hard way.
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@paulg Voters who object to corruption and lying should vote accordingly. How can you denigrate that?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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y'all are in desperate need of preferential voting. First past the post just isn't democratic(as in democracy).
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And why our election system sucks. Score voting would be miles better than our current plurality system.
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