>>Below 25%, yet he was still in power? Amazing, huh?
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>Is this too difficult to understand ? Maybe it is, the US only really has 2 political parties, so power is likely to go to the one with over 50% support (except, I understand with the current president).
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>In a true multi-party democracy, where each party represents a part of the country, then it is very likely that the winning party will get a relatively low proportion of the votes & still end up leading the country.
That happened here in Bolivia, for instance. Ca. 11 parties (or was it 13? - it is hard to keep track of them). In the last election, the 3 major parties got something like 22%, 20% and 18% of the votes (not sure right now about the exact figures, but it was around 20% each).
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
