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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2018-08-11 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] calimac 2018-08-11 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"The Alliance scored a higher vote share in failing to break the electoral mould in Britain than Macron did in smashing it in France. The reason? Different electoral systems."

Well, no. They've left a little bit out, which is that Macron's 24% was enough to get him first place, while the Alliance's 25% got it third place.

One might argue that the plethora of French candidates which contributed to this placement was the result of their different electoral system, but that would be a second-order argument this article does not make, and in any case 1) the French system may enable the number of major candidates, but it doesn't dictate the near-even split of the results, 2) insofar as the UK's system enables anything, it pushes against there being a strong nationwide third party at all.
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[personal profile] redbird 2018-08-11 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if there were a list of countries the US was in that sort of fight with, it would be obsolete as soon as the bastard in the White House woke up.

In other words, the question assumes that there's anything resembling policy and planning going on here.
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[personal profile] calimac 2018-08-12 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Somehow I'd failed to notice that Turkey and the USA are now in a trade war. Is there a list of countries that the US is in a slapfight with?"

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