----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:35 PM Subject: Re: Corruption in a Democracy
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 9:54 PM > Subject: Re: Corruption in a Democracy > > > > 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." > > Mebbie if he had viagra earier he would have been viable. :-) > Or at least admantine. xponent Dole Pole Maru rob
