Naughtyangel,

Well, technically, Americans don’t. When we engage in this quadrennial circus, we vote for a slate of “electors”, who at a later date, decide on one of the nominees. So, in that sense, it is like the parliamentary system, where the Party’s alpha member is maintained as the “Prime” minister.

But that is as far as the similarity goes. Once the Electoral College has completed it function of anointing America’s next president, these august gentlemen and ladies return to their previous states in life.

The American implementation of representative democracy is often Byzantine – but it is ALWAYS entertaining.

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Eudaimonia