"Proportinal Repesentation is very diffucult for the agerage Brit to understand"

ok ARD MHACHA, so how come u can't spell proportional and representation?

For your Information, The last presidential election was the first for nearly 2 decades in which the winner also had a majority of the popular vote. But consider this, in previous election where turnout is roughly 50% and teh winner takes 50% of that vote to win, simple maths (if taht's not too hard) means that the winner has a mandate from effectively 25% of the US population. Not bad for the most powerful position in the world. Not. Chew that one over your freedom fries.

In Britain we have a sytem of democracy that has worked for almost three centuries. It's not perfect but we believe in evolution not revolution. Change will come over time. We don't need no American's telling us what to do, where do you think you get your system of government from??????