Re:France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax
by jacquesm on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:19AM
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You've got that backwards. With the people that voted for them the bulk of the politicians are still happy. A recalled vote would simply deduct one from the result as set and would leave the rest of the results in place until the balance point was reached. That would not be something that would 'go back and forth', you could only do that once and when the withdrawn votes balance out (which typically for both parties would normally happen at roughly the same rate) would you call a new election.
So that would not happen nearly as often as you might think, and would likely require a fairly major turn of opinion before it would have any effect.
The two party system by the way is very much broken, as is the influence of money in American politics but that's a completely different - and local - affair.
Of course we can. Take the US dominant two-party system, and look at the approval rating for politicians. Look at how many times it crosses the 50% line. Some would only be in office for a few weeks before being replaced, but then who would replace them? What if the previous candidate has a better job already? Does The Party now get to pick someone? How about when approval ratings move back and forth between 48% and 52% over the course of just a few weeks, multiple times?