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oldernwiser

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9. hmmm...

Reply to sad sally (Reply #6)

Mon May 21, 2012, 03:27 PM

May 2012

Unfortunately, this is how our own ballots look now. If a party should concede a district due to some poll that says the other party holds a lock, then the incumbent runs unopposed. What I believe is wrong with this equation is that if so much as 1 person votes for him, and we can assume the candidate will vote for himself, he's in. That isn't exactly the will of the people so much as it is the will of the party. No wonder that voter turnouts are unimpressive.

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