Quote Originally Posted by psychocat
I also find it odd that America only has two choices since America seems so pro choice , I could be missing something but shouldn't there be more choices ?
There actually are more than two parties in the US and almost always more than two choices in an election, but generally only the candidates from the two major parties are viable for President. Other parties sometimes get senators or congressmen elected, but I don't think there has ever been a minor party president. There is nothing in the Consittution that says it has to be this way, but as a practical matter that's how it works out. Becasue we don't have a structure that supports coalition type governments, it just ends up being that if you don't vote for one of the two major party candidates, you are generally just throwing your vote away or making a "protest" vote. Often a third semi-viable candidate will end up acting as a "spoiler" for the other candidate that is closest in policy. So in 1992, Ross Perot ran and ended up siphoning off votes from George Bush the senior. Many Perot voters probably would have picked Bush as a second choice, but by casting their vote for Perot, they didn't get their first or second choice. Same thing happend when Nader ran on the Green ticket and ended up pulling votes from Al Gore in 2000.