How Does a Political Party With an Economic Agenda For Just 1% of the Public Receive 51% of the Popular Vote?
952144
My god we republicans still allow you to eat and go on welfare don't we. why can't you just let us take care of the money, and we will let it trickle down to you, but just enough to keep you needing more.
1087868
Yes. Its mostly a parliamentary democracy where the ruling party rules only as long they have majority support of the parliament. And the parliament tends to reflect, doesn't always reflect exactly though, but tends to reflect the views of the people. So the system is a lot more dynamic. In the US once some party has a majority they are in there for a term, regardless of whether or not the people have changed their mind within that term. Also, the US has only 2  choices, but not everything can be divided into two categories. There are endless possibilities of combinations of choices. No political party represents those combinations. May be someone has conservative views on fiscal policy but liberal views on social or foreign policy, who does he vote for? None!\nSo in that sense the EC is more advanced than the US. Which is not surprising, after all, everything that the US boasts of today came from Europe at some point.
775985
I believe people, Democrat or Republican, vote for a person on only ONE ISSUE, especially in recent elections around the country. A politician may state he will not vote for minimum wage, refuse to fix the Medicare disaster, and could care less about public schools, however, if that same person makes a stand against or for ONE ISSUE, then people will vote for that person.\n\nUnfortunately, that is how it is. Good luck with trying to change educational policies by going around him.
765784
The candidate is chosen by the partymates.
636765
Lets see...\n\nyou only need 6 states to win, \nand you only need 51 votes in each of those states,\n\nso 306.  \n\nthats 27.5% of the total votes.  So you could actually have 70% of the people vote AGAINST you and still win.
700492
Some politicians pick their party based on what party is most popular at that time in order to get elected.\n\nLater, after they have established their power base, some switch to what they really believe. Some switch later on in the event their party is no longer the popular party because they want to stay in power.
1121176
It has to do with many factors. Mainly the representative system. Since we have only a "winner takes all" Congress (meaning that only one person represents a district instead of a proportional representation system) a tow-party system tends to arise since only one can win the prize. For that reason parties tend to be center oriented, trying to attract the highest possible amount of voters. In a proportional representation system more parties would arise since the chance of getting a share of the prize is higher.\n\nOf course, while in theory American parties are center-oriented (and in practice they are), the fact that we have a low voter turnout, especially in mid-term elections can lead to a small share of the voting public to elect some wacko to the House of Representatives.\n\nAnother reason is that our institutions have been rigged by the historical two-party system and while we have many political parties in America we only have two national parties, and those parties have made it difficult for emerging political parties to become part of the game.
472815
It is product of the conservative party's policy's, they have implimented supply side economics which is always wrong which leads to inflation and then depression, or recession. If you have a pile of boxes on the floor and you want to move them if you go over and pick up the top box all that you move is the top box. If you pick up the bottom box all the boxes move including the top. Repuglicans always choose to move just the top box.
1012467
Because they use the useless social programs and free government handouts to BUY VOTES from their shiftless lazy and ignorant base.\n\nYou know whom I'm talking about - People who say things like "How bout being pi**ed of at the wealthy at not paying their fair share of taxes" - Even though the facts clearly show that the rich PAY MOST OF THE INCOME TAXES - The Top 50% of income earners pay 96.54% of All Income Taxes - The Top 1% Pay More Than a Third: 34.27%\n\nLiberals can't take the truth because it exposes their arguments for what they are - completely based in emotion and void of any facts.\n\nStop whining liberals - your ideas for running the country suck - deal with it.
1153118
The problem with government and politics in  general today, is the major concern being re-election. Politicians will aften make certain deals under the table with other politicians regarding certain bills, for example, the politician will agree to vote or shoot down certain bills in order to gain a return vote from the politician or politicians spearheading that bill, on bills that politician may try to present and push in the future. This of course can tick off constituents, so politicians wil try to gain favor with the constituents by taking the popular vote on bills based on what thier constituents want or need when its an election year. It's called flip-flop politics. John Kerry being a prime example.
1153629
there is a whole corporate structure built upon us which perpetuates the same system over and over.  It doesn't matter which party is in control.  The fact is that the politicians have been bought at varying degrees by the corporate world.  \nwhen they raise an issue of accountability, they don't really have the political will to see it through... because their deeper personal interests get in the way.
1021314
In the last polls, 80% of the population was eligible to vote but only 74% of that 80% was registered to vote. In other words, out of a 100 people 80 were eligible to vote but 59.2 were registered to vote.\n80% of 100 = 80\n74% of 80 = 59.2
1125349
about 20% of the electorate.\nSo thats 40% of the actual votes.
245676
Don't confuse the vocal minority, with the silent majority. The vocal minority is loud, but that doesnt mean they can produce more votes in an election.
357504
Rob from the poor to give to the rich, and people still vote for them. It is called supply side economics. What a shame for the richest country in the world that they cannot take care of their poor.
830347
Oddly enough this is NOT an easy thing to find.  I found it at only a few sites.  Eash contradicting the others.  Once I found an unbiased source, it breaks down like this..... \n\nRep-31%\nDem-29%\nIndependent  40%\n\nAs Voted on Nov 7th\n\nDemocrat 53%\nRepublican 44%\nInd 3%
1140942
doubt it. cant see a one policy party taking many votes