A little animation I cooked up on "lurching".
With a relatively small change in popular vote, our First-Past-The-Post system has us lurching from one extreme to another (think Bob Rae to Mike Harris). In the most recent election, the Liberals doubled their seat-count to form a majority government on a 6.6% increase at the ballot box.
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On further reflection, there isn't a bigger turn-off than the word "policy". We'll leave this as the referendum "geek" version, and have a sexier one tomorrow!
This is one of the most wasteful aspects of FPTP. The Eglinton Subway debacle *alone* cost Ontario $90m in the change from Rae's NDP to Harris' Conservatives in 1995.
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