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Originally Posted by Halx
What that means is the election may be swayed by the candidate with enough people who think he's "cool" instead of the issues themselves. But that's a maybe.
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I think that has been happening since at least the Kennedy / Nixon election... I think this will continue to happen as long as the average person cares more about dumb shit like Anna Nicole Smith's death than the government.
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Originally Posted by Halx
One would like to think that democracy works FOR us rather than against us.
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." (H. L. Mencken)
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