At 03:13 PM 1/15/02 -0800 Jeffrey Miller wrote:
>Democracies wherein elections occur with only 1 viable candidate are not
>elections.
Noone appears to have dealt with this question yet.....
....but was the US Presidential election in 1996 really an election?
Only, I guess, for sufficiently large definitions of viable to include "Bob
Dole."
More seriously, though, that's a pretty strong statement to have relying
upon such a subjective quality as "viability."
JDG
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