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by pasc1878 469 days ago
The problem is not in getting the 1% at the end but it si the primary system.

But that is true in all two party states.

The people who take part and organise the party will not be in the centre undecideds they will be those who are off centre. To become the leader you need to get the votes from the party workers, these will tend away from the centre so you get more extreme leaders.

With the two party system the coalitions are made behind closed doors in the party.
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hollerith 469 days ago
>To become the leader you need to get the votes from the party workers

That can't be the whole story because Trump never bothered to win over party workers when he won in 2016.

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pasc1878 464 days ago
OK I was thinking about the UK party system where party members vote.

In the US it is just the registered voters that need to be won over.

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