Reply With QuotePR is for the Europeans - knock it off, fool.
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Just looked this up; the PR referendum in Cincinnati failed by narrow margin
Proportional representation was almost re-implemented in one of America's largest cities, which would've made it the only city besides Cambridge in the US to use the system. What's notable about this referendum is that the other referendums to put it in place failed by much larger (like 70-30 margins) in the 90's. I think we may be seeing a resurgence in the fortunes of PR in this Pyrrhic victory for the majority-casts-the-minorities-vote crowd. Let's hope the next one succeeds, and then we can implement it for the state legislatures, and then the federal one.
http://www.betterballotcincinnati.com/
Backers of Issue 8 Optimistic about Future Reform
Voters clearly want a change in Cincinnati City Council Elections
Cincinnati voters yesterday opposed Issue 8 and proportional representation by a margin of 53.5% to 46.5%. After winning among absentee voters by a margin of 52% to 48%, Issue 8 lost among Election Day voters influenced by a well-financed onslaught of negative attacks focusing almost exclusively on false claims about Issue 8 such as prospective costs for implementing proportional representation next year.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
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PR is for the Europeans - knock it off, fool.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
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"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
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"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
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911 EVERY DAY
The right is for fascists.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
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You mean the non-proportional system is for fascists? I guess we're all fascists then...Originally Posted by Watermark
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
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