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Originally Posted by scout
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic.../countymap.htm
Looking at the map of how each county voted it appears the two America's are distinctly urban and rural. Could this be from two distinct realities? Is life in the cities that much different than life in rural America? If so, is it time for a smaller more streamlined federal government and more power for the states or even cities and counties to govern themselves? Do we really need federal mandates that cover everyone when the realities of life are so different between states, cities and even counties? Is it time to look at how are government is structured and make changes accordingly? Could it be our founding fathers was wise beyond their years? Our federal government was originaly intended to provide a common defense and regulate the trade between the states. Is it possible that the Libertarian party truly holds the answers we all so desperately seek?
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Perhaps it's already clear, but I would agree with this. People would be a lot happier with the states doing most of the governing. Each person has more of a say as well (1 of 5,000,000 in Illinois for example is certainly better than 1 of 130,000,000 for all of America).
Now, regarding gay marriage, I don't think there would be a difference because I see gay marriage as a civil rights issue.
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Originally Posted by Stompy
Just curious (and maybe this deserves its own thread), but how have the libertarians been progressing lately.. pretty good?
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The Free State Project is moving slowly sad to say. As for winning elections, I'm not sure how many offices they picked up this election. I do know that Michael Badnarik got about the same number of votes as Harry Browne did in 2000 and came within about 20k of Ralph Nader. I think this is pretty good considering 1) the reluctancy on many people's part to vote third party this election because of what happened in 2000 and 2) the fact that Nader, even this election, got about 500x more coverage than Badnarik did.
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www.lp.org and read that 20 more Libertarians were elected to office on Nov 2.