Reply #15: completely crazy

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I love the rationalized idea of a proportional system, but it just doesn't make sense for the US congress to be run that way. Our country is way too large and diverse for a member of one party from one part of the country to be expected to represent the views of someone who, while possibly a supporter of that party, from the other side of the country. If one house were to become proportional, it would seem to make more sense for that to be the senate, but it's about 50/50 anyway, and I suspect that that's what would happen with a proportional system - no other party would get more than 1% of the vote. IRV is what we need to change things.