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Opinion: 10 Years Later, Our Electoral System Is Still Broken
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(Nov. 10) -- Let's face it -- our electoral system is broken. Not completely. In most instances the system does its job and determines a winner. But if the race is close and the outcome determines who gets political power, the cracks in the structure become painfully clear. This was the real lesson of the 2000 presidential recount crisis in Florida: In close elections, when every vote counts, our electoral machinery is not up to the job. Sadly, this lesson was lost in the controversy ignited by the Supreme Court's unprecedented ruling in Bush v. Gore, in which a five-justice majority ...
U.K.'s Coalition Government: A Happy Marriage? (And Can It Last?)
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyThe United Kingdom has a coalition government for the first time in 70 years. But will this marriage of convenience last? The historic British elections, which -- after five days of intense wrangling -- finally yielded a new coalition government under the leadership of David Cameron on Tuesday night, has already unleashed a torrent of analysis and commentary. Some of it has been hopeful, some of it cautious, and some of it downright negative. ...
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