Late State
The results are in and to no one's surprise, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia has been reelected Senator.
Before the election, I wrote against early voting. Now that it's over, I find I don't like runoffs for the same reason. States are allowed to set up the voting system they prefer, but there's something unseemly when elections that affect the nation get decided on a different day from everything else. Such a runoff is like allowing someone a late bid at an auction--we should all be in this together.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:26 AM
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Voting all at the same time is, I think, like Thanksgiving as a national holiday, something that feels like an ancient tradition but is something that only goes back less than 100 years.
I think you'll see the idea of deciding certain national things on the same day is in the Constitution, even if it's been expressed differently through the years.
Oh I see.... the meaning evolved.
I like runoffs because I don't like the idea of a plurality getting to impose their preference on the majority.
So you would have liked a Presidential runoff in 200, 1996, 1992, 1968, 1960, 1948, etc.?
I think New England Guy is trying to make some sort of point in his second comment, but for the life of me I don't know what it is. Considering it took decades before all the states allowed a popular vote for President, of course Consitutional ideas of how to run elections have been expressed differently through the years.
Only that the Constitution means different things at different times under different circumstances.
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