Comment 62609

By thrillhouse (registered) | Posted April 23, 2011 at 00:55:56 in reply to Comment 62583

Fair enough (on the point of your article), though the fact that the 2000 election was stolen wasn't my point. Seriously, it's an undisputed fact that Gore received 500k+ more votes. The events in Florida are entirely tangential.

My point was just that the American system is far more like ours than you make it out to be, since it (like ours) allows someone to receive more power than the popular vote indicates they ought. That's just the nature of our implementations of first-past-the-post, and Harper should realize that the Canadian system certainly /doesn't/ entail that the person with the most votes will have the most party members in power (and who can thus vote one into leadership).

All Harper is really entitled to claim, given the facts about our system, is that the party with the most MPs deserves (if you will) to be in power. But this needn't imply that that party received the most votes. On the contrary, our system forms a government on the basis of 'most MPs', not 'most votes', and these can occasionally diverge (sometimes even radically).

Comment edited by thrillhouse on 2011-04-23 01:15:22

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