Will Al Franken or Norm Coleman be able to claim to be "the people's choice"?
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents states from adopting voting systems that would do a better job of meeting democratic criteria. It's also the case, incidentally, that several of the Democratic wins in 2006 featured non-majority winners who might have been helped by the presence of third-party candidates who deprived Republicans of likely votes. This might have been the case in Montana, and Sen. Webb in Virginia, too, might have been ... Full Story »
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