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Kill:

--- Quote from: Foday-muh'fuckin-Sankoh, bitch! on April 28, 2008, 06:34:42 AM ---
--- Quote from: Kill on April 28, 2008, 05:54:00 AM ---this uniquely American way of having electoral votes that are all handed out to the winning candidate in each state is an anachronism and one big problem of American democracy, exemplified most clearly by Bush beating Gore with less votes than him.

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Of course the U.S. is not a democracy.  The U.S. is a constitutional republic. You guys just figured that out now?

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Thanks. By what definition of the word "democracy" is a republic (res publica, i.e. "public thing") per se not a democracy?

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