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you don't realize...no one cares about political threads except for 5
people on this forum...you contribute nothing to this forum but anger
and politics...if you think we're too immature then find yourself a
different forum
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Nobody ever suspects the fun police! 
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Dune
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 1:55pm |
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We're not a democracy? Wow, something else I've been lied to about all my life. I know how the elections run, and it sucks. If a cult coerices the majority of people into voting, that's who should win. Majority rules, like with almost everything else. If a cult wins public opinion....that doesn't make them a cult.
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Clark Kent
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:05pm |
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While Bugg of course is wrong about almost everything he said about the electoral college, I agree with him that it is a good thing. In my view, the electoral college structure, along with US Senators elected at the state level and Reps elected at the district level (as opposed to at large) preserves variety of representation that I believe is important. Without the electoral college, for instance, I expect that 90% of presidential campaigning would be done in large cities, since any vote is as good as any other. No presidential nominee would visit Iowa or Wisconsin ever again. The US is a very wide and varied country. I believe these structures make sure that this variety is represented, at least to some extent, in our government. |
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Dune
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:07pm |
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I completely understand your argument Clark. I just tend to feel less of my vote when I know it doesn't actually count for much, especially if I live in a rural area with little population.
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Clark Kent
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:10pm |
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Very true - a side effect of the electoral system is that some votes count more than others, and that can suck if you are in the "less" counted areas (which is most of the country). But, to offset that, you get the benefit of the two-party system: Even between elections, they are constantly readjusting to "fit" their constituency. So even though your official vote is deeply discounted, your unofficial counts as much as you are willing to yell and complain. I always figure that a letter to your congressman is worth hundreds of votes. |
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Dune
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:11pm |
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Also very true. Good points. To each his own.
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usafpilot07
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:18pm |
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technically, we are a democratic republic. China is a "Republic", Britain is a Democracy
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Clark Kent
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:22pm |
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Britain is a representative democracy, just as the US is. They just have a parliamentary system instead of our republican system. I do not believe there has EVER been, in the history of EVER, a single democracy that was not a representative democracy of some kind. The first thing any democracy does is elect one or more leaders. In a "pure" direct democracy, every decision would be decided by vote. That is so silly as to defy logic. As soon as the voters delegate decision-making authority to elected officials, you have a representative democracy. |
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Cedric
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:33pm |
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I don't give a damn what you think. |
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goodsmitty
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:41pm |
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Gee your first strike is flaming, what a surprise there. I don't think I need to contribute to your teen angst, it is smoldering hot without my input.What else would you have to hate this afternoon, if it weren't one of my political threads. "I am the wellspring from which you flow" -Thulsa Doom |
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"Reading this thread, I'm sad to say that the only difference between the average American and the average Taliban is economic status."
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bluemunky42
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:43pm |
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well said 
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BlackDeath7
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:44pm |
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President George Bush won the election. Get over it. Senator
John Kerry lost the election. Get over it. All you are
doing GSmitty is bringing politics to the forum which turns into
personal attacks and then nobody is happy. There are many errors
with that article, you are just trying to find some excuse as to why
your favored candidate lost. It actually makes you look like a
two-year-old if you can't accept the fact that the leader of this
country won fairly. I wish you stop throwing your hissy fit
soon.
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Brett Favre gets sacked again. |
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Badsmitty
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:50pm |
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O.K. no politics. 1. I see that your barrel is as big as mine. 2. My gun shoots 30 balls a second. 3. I am a sniper with a ghillie suit (nuh uh, nuh uh!). 4. I am beginning to grow hair in strange places, do you think girls will like me? 5. I'm thinking of suicide because Menudo broke up.
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Panda Man
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:52pm |
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heh... Besides **edited** Chaney(sp) No president has even visited my State for Campaign's... |
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 3:06pm |
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Amazing post. |
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goodsmitty
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 3:16pm |
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You forgot: 7. Do you liek me? 8. Who'se your faverite former? 9. Check out my pad (no 56kers) |
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"Reading this thread, I'm sad to say that the only difference between the average American and the average Taliban is economic status."
-Zesty |
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PlentifulBalls
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 3:35pm |
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I have no problem with political threads, but I can't stand to hear one
more liberal wine about Bush winning and proposing things like this.
Whether he won or not, he is president. |
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 3:41pm |
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POst ur DEsktop #4-048]4-094. I changed 3 times in the past hour....
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hashi2008
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 4:04pm |
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OMG This should be #1 in the dumbest topic poll if we had a dumbest topic poll. I think most of the morons in the idea forum ave more sense than GS.
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Posted: 05 April 2005 at 5:56pm |
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Case Western Reserve University...
 not MIT, Harvard, or Brown though. I understand that an Associate Professor of Underwater Basket Weaving at the Community College of West Fargo concurs with his statistical findings. C-O-N~spiracy!!!!!!! 
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