Electoral College

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And that, sadly hits the nail square on the head not only for the US but world wide...  :D

In a time where the media dictate the outcome of elections (and yes, even in France and here in Germany and *everywhere*, just perhaps not with so many strange rituals...  :P ) and it's necessary to spend hundreds of millions to get elected, that will even increase in the future. And political parties (even in countries where there are more than 2 that count :ph34r: ) will keep becoming more and more similar to each other.

But I still think that Bush would speed up the downward spiral more than Kerry, if only a bit...
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But still, here in Holland (multiparty system) political parties get a few broadcasting minutes on TV (for free) in which they can explain a bit about what they stand for. For the rest the campaigning here stop with posters, which usually only show the party logo or the face of the person that is no. 1 on the list of the party. And of course debates, honest, fair discussions between people from different parties. Contributions from companies to political parties are not even allowed (but I'm not 100 % sure of this). So I must state here that at least in Holand we are very very far from how things go in the US.