[Vision2020] polarizing and the two-party system

[Ted Moffett]

Proportional representation.  A very good idea.  Yet what happened to Lani
Guinier, Clinton administration appointee to be Assistant Attorney General
for Civil Rights, an advocate for proportional representation?

http://www.news.uiuc.edu/NEWS/03/1113commence.html

http://www.fairvote.org/reports/1993/hertzberg.html

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Ted Moffett


On 10/14/06, Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Paul --
>
> I think the money issue is a red herring. I think that the main issue
> is the "winner-take-all" structure of our system. If our system
> apportioned seats in Congress according to the number of actual votes
> for a party, rather than allowing voters (essentially) an up-or-down
> vote on a regional incumbent. For instance, taking votes in the 2000
> election as a barometer of the way people might actually vote if this
> were a case, our Congress would have 18 members from the Green party,
> 3 Libertarians, and 3 Constitution party members. Now, while the
> Libertarians and Constitution Party members would probably caucus with
> the Republicans and the Greens with the Democrats, we would certainly
> have a more diverse legislature.
>
> -- ACS
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