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Old 05-26-2008, 05:31 AM  
pocketkangaroo
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Originally Posted by StuartD View Post
Yeah, it's quickly become a "the people pick their best person to represent them" to "the people in power pick other people in power to represent themselves, not the people."

Unfortunately, that's quickly becoming common everywhere, not just the US.
It's actually always been that way here. We've never directly voted for our highest office. Also factor in that blacks, women, non-land owners couldn't vote for a large portion of our nation's history.

Votes also don't matter as we found out in 2000. I have a feeling that Obama is going to win the popular vote by a lot this year but lose the electoral college.
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