Re: What do the powerful voters want ?
Well, if in some constituencies people blindly vote for the same party because is what parents and grandparents did - it's not a fault of the system - it's a fault of the people.
No law can ban stupidity.
Yet "consulting the public" not aways means you have to just to act following "vox populi" - you can end with Barabba instead of Jesus... see above.