My belief is that it’s primarily the voting system that causes this. (Not the electoral college; rather the whole ‘first past the post’ style of voting.) We see scissors presidents because that’s the winning strategy.
I suspect that other more sophisticated voting systems (even just ranked choice!) would do better. No voting system is perfect, but ‘first past the post’ is particularly pathological.
My belief is that it’s primarily the voting system that causes this. (Not the electoral college; rather the whole ‘first past the post’ style of voting.) We see scissors presidents because that’s the winning strategy.
I suspect that other more sophisticated voting systems (even just ranked choice!) would do better. No voting system is perfect, but ‘first past the post’ is particularly pathological.