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Showing Original Post only (View all)Please tell this Canadian...why is the Repub. presid. canadidate being decided by a small state? [View all]
Perhaps there's something missing in my understanding of the sysem, but it seems to me that it is far from typical of the wishes of the majority of the American public. If I understand your system...then after 3 or 4 small, mostly white states being tested, the decision is made for the whole country. Why do you not start with large, more diverse states?...Or why not have the primary vote for all the states on the same day? Wouldn't that be more representative of reality?
Thanks for allowing me to butt into your affairs!
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Please tell this Canadian...why is the Repub. presid. canadidate being decided by a small state? [View all]
glarius
Jan 2012
OP
New Brunswick is great. They also speak English in Nova Scotia, if you can understand the dialects.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2012
#37
There is no requirement to know French in most provinces other than Quebec....
riverbendviewgal
Jan 2012
#30
That is not the way that it is supposed to work, but it is, in fact, how it does.
potone
Jan 2012
#14
Your sarcastic comment does not seem to recognize the fact that we don't sweat over a head of state
glarius
Jan 2012
#31
It's designed to allow Party insiders and monied interests to select the candidates.
Romulox
Jan 2012
#19
I believe people are starting to realize what Harper's intentions are and we will do to his
glarius
Jan 2012
#35
Think of it this way. Here we have elections, but the majority is never truly represented.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2012
#36