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Yet Another U-Turn From Trump !
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In the UK you do not vote for a party but a representative for your constituency. If you take note of the party a candidate is a member of when coming to a decision, then that's your personal choice. Thus UKIP did not get 4M votes, candidates who had joined their party and stood under their name did, between them. And fair enough, only in one constituency did the candidate with largest number of votes cast for them happen to be a UKIP member, who was duly declared their representative.
In the Presidential election the situation differs in that the whole nation is voting for their choice of the same group of candidates; so what part of the nation they reside in should not effect anything. It's like being in one big nationwide constituency. That it does matter is difficult to defend.
As for Trump, it's not overly surprising that he has been dropping the more extreme promises. In the case of Clinton, since the authorities claim insufficient evidence so far, Trump would look a fool spending a fortune on something that no longer gains him anything and would waste tax dollars and show him as being just vindictive when nothing came of it. He would need further evidence to come to light without spending a fortune on an investigation hoping to find some, if he wanted to proceed.
In the Presidential election the situation differs in that the whole nation is voting for their choice of the same group of candidates; so what part of the nation they reside in should not effect anything. It's like being in one big nationwide constituency. That it does matter is difficult to defend.
As for Trump, it's not overly surprising that he has been dropping the more extreme promises. In the case of Clinton, since the authorities claim insufficient evidence so far, Trump would look a fool spending a fortune on something that no longer gains him anything and would waste tax dollars and show him as being just vindictive when nothing came of it. He would need further evidence to come to light without spending a fortune on an investigation hoping to find some, if he wanted to proceed.
Og....this strange notion that people vote for people and not Parties has been aired on here before, but I don't believe a word of it. Its counter intuitive to say the least.
if it were true, all voters would know the name of their candidate of choice before voting and would still remember it now. But sadly that isn't true.
Most people go into the Polling booth looking for the Party name, not the candidates name, and that is the sad truth, and in a FPTP system, that is what wins Elections.
Like you, I am not remotely surprised that most of Trumps pre-election promises are being dumped.....most of them were either impossible, non-constitutional or illegal.
But it was these promises/lies that he was elected on, not what he making up now on the spot, in closed rooms. The American people were lied to and a minority were taken in by the lies.
if it were true, all voters would know the name of their candidate of choice before voting and would still remember it now. But sadly that isn't true.
Most people go into the Polling booth looking for the Party name, not the candidates name, and that is the sad truth, and in a FPTP system, that is what wins Elections.
Like you, I am not remotely surprised that most of Trumps pre-election promises are being dumped.....most of them were either impossible, non-constitutional or illegal.
But it was these promises/lies that he was elected on, not what he making up now on the spot, in closed rooms. The American people were lied to and a minority were taken in by the lies.
