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ulTRAX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-04 12:58 PM
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10. Your fixation on state residence ...
GreenPartyVoter wrote: "One trouble is that if we switch to a popular vote, smaller states worry that presidential candidates will never come to them and speak."

I live in Mass. I don't see either Bush or Kerry coming here simply because it's not a swing state. So should non-swing states be given a heavier vote so we're not ignored? What if the candidates are not speaking to particular minorities REGARDLESS of state residence?

Your fixation on state residence above all else seems a throwback to the politics of 1787 we were brainwashed with in 4th grade US history.

The Framers are dead. This is OUR nation now. If THEIR system can not guarantee morally legitimate government... then we must reform it. But that will never happen if we place the interests of the dead over that of the living.



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