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Originally Posted by luvrpgrl
Yet oddly enough, in the Philippines where they usually have 5-8 solid contenders for president, they mostly would prefer a two party system as we have. Reason?
When four candidates split the vote, only 25% wind up having their candidate win.
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That is because they modelled their system after ours, and our system is a two party system to the bone. Multi-party systems only work under the parliamentary model, which forces some combination of fractional winners to form a coalition so they can represent a 51% majority. It is a vastly superior system to the increasingly antiquated US geographical winner-take-all model.