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  • Because they don’t do proportional voting like you Germans or we Austrians do, most of their elections (and all federal ones) have one winning candidate in a state or congressional district.

    And there is mostly not even a requirement for 50% of the vote, but the candidate with most votes wins. That creates the two party system.

    The parties in the US are much broader than in our countries, it’s very common for different members of the same party to vote against each other.