Re: BLANK PAGE
James <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:26:17 -0400
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Going way back... On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Peter T. Chattaway < petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote: > ... > It's amazing, actually, that the combined right-of-centre vote has almost > always been between 34% and 40% (with the exception of the two noticeably > large Mulroney victories in 1984 and 1988, and the slightly smaller Harper > and Clark defeats in 2004 and 1980, respectively), yet the results have been > so wildly different -- a few majority governments, a few minority > governments, and various divisions into second party, third party and/or > fifth party status. A couple of percentage points can make a *huge* > difference ... as, of course, can having a united party. > ... > One reason why I'd really like to have some better form of proportional representation like single transferrable votes. -- (DEPRECATED) dadl-ot mailing list -- please use new Google Group for new discussions! http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot