This board is quiet-- so how bout this election?!?!?

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Posted by Jason Rudolph.

Other on team #459, , from University of Florida/Eastside High School and .

Posted on 11/8/2000 5:17 PM MST


In Reply to: This board is quiet-- so how bout this election?!?!? posted by colleen on 11/8/2000 1:53 PM MST:



: If this is a true democracy-- shouldn't what the PEOPLE say, go..?
This isn't a TRUE democracy, a TRUE democracy was what the romans had, well, it's the closest thing so far at least. A TRUE democracy is where the people govern themselves, we have a Representative democracy, where the people elect the officials which govern over them (well, for the most part, there was Ford, who hadn't even been elected by one person)

: And what kind of country would be have if it was led by a president who people don't feel won the right?
Well, that's all relative, you are NEVER going to find a candidate which ALL of the people want, so you have to go with the Majority, however, in an election this close, it probably wont matter a whole lot who ends up winning, because since the country is so evenly divided, if the president elect doesn't satisfy enough voters, he'll lose in the next election, and unfortunately for us, these ARE career politicians, and their main concern is getting reelected, not creating efficient policy (that's why I'm Nader all the way).

: And now to relate this to FIRST-- which canidate (if any) do you think has/had the best interest of the future of America in mind? There's so much focus on things that don't matter--
Which would that be? From the looks of it to me, the majority of the focus is on extremely important issues, nothing that I have seen is something that doesn't matter.

: But then again-- the people vote and it's not respected--
I completely disagree, if the politicians didn't pay attention to the people's vote, they would not be politicians at all, if they don't at least respect our vote, then they do fear it

: so what do all the other registered voters think?
NADER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and I agree on the electoral college DOES have to go.