It has been said a gazillion times over the last few months, but is it getting through to those who need to hear it?

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    25 days ago

    On the other side of the Atlantic there’s usually two rounds, unless someone gets >50% of the vote in the first round.

    The second round takes the top two candidates and then people choose between them.

    Well I mean I don’t know of all European countries but this is fairly common afaik.

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        25 days ago

        Yeah. I know.

        The US doesn’t have a direct presidential election. You have the electoral college, ie an indirect election.

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          24 days ago

          Correct, but even state by state, if you have multiple people running and nobody hits 50%, Presidential elections are not subject to a run-off election like we saw in the Georgia Senate race.