Ronda, You wrote; > The primaries, similarly, only allow for voters to choose among candidates > chosen by for them by the parties.
I think that is an oversimplification. Generally, one has to meet some, admittedly often too onerous, requirement to run in a primary, but the parties as structures cannot limit who runs. I participated in a campaign this year to buck the Democratic Party's favorite in a Congressional district near here. We won by a sizable margin against the Party bigwigs' favored candidate. Our candidate has a good chance to defeat the incumbent Republican today. I am going off to help get out the vote shortly. Best, Michael # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
