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**EmpaccalGah** · 02-09-2006, 12:46 AM

That is naiive. The representation system here is so screwed up that this government can hardly be called "ours." It is effectively under the ownership of whoever draws the disctricts.

The problem is you have 50% of the voting population actually voting in national elections, and that is on a close race. One quarter vote in state elections or in a mid-term year and you have even less in local elections. We have a 94% incumbancy rate which voters tend to forgive all to often their leaders of their political idealogy while giving no quarter to the opposite political idealogy, in most cases. We have allowed this because of us and no one else is to blame.

02-09-2006, 12:46 AM	#16
EmpaccalGah Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 410 Senior Member	That is naiive. The representation system here is so screwed up that this government can hardly be called "ours." It is effectively under the ownership of whoever draws the disctricts. The problem is you have 50% of the voting population actually voting in national elections, and that is on a close race. One quarter vote in state elections or in a mid-term year and you have even less in local elections. We have a 94% incumbancy rate which voters tend to forgive all to often their leaders of their political idealogy while giving no quarter to the opposite political idealogy, in most cases. We have allowed this because of us and no one else is to blame.
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