On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> The post I wrote on this the other day probably won't hold water,
> but I
> think it's a suggestion worth explorig: the DP runs as a governing
> party, and can win only when that 'works.' The RP is allowed, then, to
> be merely a set of eletoral gimmicks. Each practice wins about half
> the
> time.
By your own admission, you never listen to speeches by mainstream politicians and haven't followed a campaign in decades. I don't think you really know what the discourse is like.
Doug