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While you have a system so reliant on the amount of money spent and the big businesses who contribute the money, true Democracy is rare. What ever country it is, businesses do not waste money on something that does not provide a result.
What surprised me was the amount of information the voter gets in the US. While I was there recently I watched the news channels and was surprised at the lack of real coverage the election gets.
There was lots of coverage on the slander and lies being put out by both sides supporters in the form of ads. Most of the ads I saw were negative and more aimed at don't vote for him, assuming then the voter would have to vote for the other guy. Which shows you the true number of participants.
What I never heard was what Kerry or Bush will do to run the US better than the shambles it's in now. This at a time when the US has lost 1,200,000 jobs, unemployment is growing the gap between the poor and rich is growing and the dollar is still in the toilet. No one came up with any solutions or even appeared to have a clue how to fix it.
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