Chickenboy
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ORIGINAL: Terminus Here's something that might blow the minds of my American brothers: the campaign "season" for the upcoming parliamentary election in this country will be 20 days long in total. Not surprising in a Parliamentary type government. Each person elects only one representative , who is in essence a "local" representative. The locals elect their leader who becomes the party leader , and normally , the prime minister. In essence you only get to elect an equivalent to a US representative. Who's generally a person already well known in his district. In the USA system (and one other country, the Phillipines) there is a myrid of elections. Some of which cover vast distances (such as the entire country). What does one end of the country know about a former governor from the other end of the country? Not much. Hence the need to start the campaign early , in theory to give people the most information from each candidate for each office. As much as my fellow Americans may suffer from "campaign burnout" , we still manage to elect people that we don't know enough about. I don't see shortening the campaign period as helping this problem. ******* Note to any moderator or interested person. This was not a political comment,endorsement or opinion. It was simply intended as an explaination to those who are not familiar with the USA election process.Please do not ban me, punish me, fold,spindle or mutilate me. These comments were intended as a Thread public service.Thank you. I'm AW1Steve and I approved this message.********* Well, I'm Chickenboy and I approve of your excellent summary, my good man. Thanks for the mid-day civics lesson, dude. Also-so sorry-I hereby intend to punish, fold, spindle and mutilate you in our PBEM game. Not IRL, however.
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