Doesn't matter - if the US was run according to you're proposal they wouldn't have a president at all right now since no one won a majority so it's clearly not a workable system you're proposing.
And instituting a second round where only the top two candidates face of is just a bogus way for the winner there to claim he/she got a majority he/she didn't actually deserve on their own merit.
A president elected with 50.1% of the votes cast in that round can easily have actually gotten less votes then a candidate eliminated in the first round if enough voter just ignore that second round when their favorite candidate was eliminated in the first.
And that doesn't give the candidate that finally won more but less democratic legitimacy.
Well actually a lot of countries elect their president without the need of any absolute majority simply because the president lack very much power - that's not just Germany.
But the US will never accept that kind of solution anyway since they want to keep their president internationally powerful but very weak at home.
Now most Americans don't actually understand that's how their system works - by making their president weak in domestic policy - but that's actually the case, which Trumps proves now when he can't get anything done.
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Doesn't matter - if the US was run according to you're proposal they wouldn't have a president at all right now since no one won a majority so it's clearly not a workable system you're proposing.
And instituting a second round where only the top two candidates face of is just a bogus way for the winner there to claim he/she got a majority he/she didn't actually deserve on their own merit.
A president elected with 50.1% of the votes cast in that round can easily have actually gotten less votes then a candidate eliminated in the first round if enough voter just ignore that second round when their favorite candidate was eliminated in the first.
And that doesn't give the candidate that finally won more but less democratic legitimacy.
Well actually a lot of countries elect their president without the need of any absolute majority simply because the president lack very much power - that's not just Germany.
But the US will never accept that kind of solution anyway since they want to keep their president internationally powerful but very weak at home.
Now most Americans don't actually understand that's how their system works - by making their president weak in domestic policy - but that's actually the case, which Trumps proves now when he can't get anything done.