Alex Cruikshanks: Also, while FPTP sucks, it is broadly a good thing that how much you can do in power depends on the size of your majority, rather than getting the same power whether you win by the skin or your teeth or by a landslide.

The Brits know how to do an election night. We can't do it the same way, because we have a zillion different federal, state, & local offices up for grabs on the same day, plus ballot initiatives & referenda. But one night with elections to a single legislative house is so pure, it's fun.

we're only just getting started, time for the real coffee pot

UK politics can be grim, but election night there with constituencies being largely ungerrymandered, losers standing next to winners of podiums, and the "election season is 6 weeks, not 2 years" default is incredibly wholesome

also "if/when you lose, there's no lame duck season, the next guy arrives tomorrow at 10am" is a big UK W vs the US system, we should totes get rid of that

Also, while FPTP sucks, it is broadly a good thing that how much you can do in power depends on the size of your majority, rather than getting the same power whether you win by the skin or your teeth or by a landslide.

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