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Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges
Anyone who didn't vote has no right to complain.
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I reserve the right to complain about things that I
can't vote for.
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Originally Posted by kstl99
Only on Chief Delphi can there be 8 posts on voting with noone giving their political views. This was extremely hard for me as I have very strong and one sided views, but I know this is a non-political forum. Its too bad that there is no forum that I know of to discuss politics the way we discuss issues here, with reasoned arguments and all trying to give honest respectful opinions even when we dissagree.
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There's no better place to discuss politics on Chief Delphi than in the Chit-Chat forum. (Actually: confine the politics to this forum!) We do occasionally have good, reasoned political discussions here, though I'm a little disappointed that they're no longer as popular as they once were. (Have a look through the Chit-Chat archives for threads leading up to the 2004 U.S. federal elections, for example.)
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Originally Posted by davidthefat
I personally did not like elections; there are too much "mud slinging". I do not know if it is really democracy at work in these elections, but more like "who can appeal to the public better through the media".
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Just speaking hypothetically, how would you feel if election fundraising and campaigning were strictly regulated and limited to (for example) two months before the election date? (With primary elections, if any, held independently and handled by the parties, not the state.) Would the (inevitable) advertising frenzy and media circus be more tolerable in that case?
That's the way it works in many places outside the U.S. (though the limitation period varies)...and I'd say it's a major contributing factor to the vastly different political atmosphere elsewhere.