In majoritarian multi-party systems like Britain and Canada, the winners get even fewer votes. Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives, nor Tony Blair's New Labour, never won a majority of the votes in any of their massive landslides. Thatcher in her giant 1983 re-election got about 43% nationwide, less than Mondale got in his supposed shellacking the following year. Blair's last year? 35%. THIRTY-FIVE PERCENT. That, I submit, is ridiculous.
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Date: 2006-01-06 09:28 pm (UTC)