Don't lecture us Brits on sovereignty - we invented the Nation State. If it weren't for us you'd all be an amorphous collective!


Ahh xenophobia. Such a lovely word, but a bit too Greek for me.

France is writing letters now?

Wow.

wow can you guess this guy is from texas?

I'm from Texas.

Heh. This is funny. Heh. I'm more worried about that Bush puppet Howard getting complete control over our parliament from this last election, which was almost suspiciously in his favour. Hmm...

I can see they they would do this.The united states actions have some really far reaching effects. On the other hand if a letter from a complete stranger is the deciding factor in your vote that's kind of sad.

Its still a free world, and the internet only proves how many idiots live in it.

The Executive Editor of The Guardian Newspaper is an American named Albert Scardino, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist. The letter writing campaign was his idea.

After some searching I found that he gave out 11,000 addresses of registered voters. I can't find any examples of of letters actually being sent to Clark County. I can't find any examples of people from Clark County recieving letters either, only letters from people in other parts of America writing to complain about or support the letter writing campaign.

My conclusion is that it was a very successful (over 1million hits per day) publicity stunt.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

You are giving a lot of voters, nay PEOPLE, too much credit. I suspect an awful lot of voters don't read enough/listen enough/watch enough to have any clue which is the best way to vote (and before you all start about the America bashing, I mean anywhere in the world). People that choose their leaders based on a 2 minute snippet on the TV news need all the help they can get!

-BUMP

UK Guardian Raises White Flag - LINKY

Granted, this is a couple of days old now, but I haven't read this thread in a while.

mirevolver, this isn't true. You're generalising when its pretty important not too. Its clear you need to reread the thread too. To say what you say in this quote completely misses the point of the responses that people like me have given. To be honest I can't be arsed (bothered) to explain it again.

In fact, you should have just marked this thread: "I think this. Don't bother joining if you disagree, because you're wrong and I hold the only correct viewpoint, thanks."

Those responses were quite uh... startling. I for one would be interested to see what would happen if an American newspaper did something similar during the British election next year, I'm sure it would put a few things into perspective.