Alex, Well said!
Joe Weinstein Long beach CA USA [Alex Small wrote: "One nice thing about Approval is that a centrist who decided to take firm stands on issues, but side with the Dems on some issues and the GOP on others (e.g. fiscally conservative/socially liberal, or fiscally liberal/socially conservative) would do quite well... The reason I call that a nice thing is NOT my own bias [but] the chance to (a) mix-and-match issues, resulting in more freedom of choice, and (b) break away from the left-right spectrum. If most candidates conform to one of two molds, it's easy to get polarization and acrimony... You get those cable news channels where they bring in a liberal and conservative to shout at one another ... You get lowest-common-denominator policy rather than best-of-both-worlds policy. If I can predict most people's stance on a tax proposal based on what they think of abortion, it signals that there's really very little discussion or thought in America, because the lines have been drawn. A system that helped candidates who mix-and-match issues from the two traditional camps might bring in truly new and innovative ideas. I truly believe that America would be a better place if we could just break the duopoly and bring in fresh new ideas, or at least innovative combinations of old ideas."] _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
