On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:39:14AM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > I think this is what has me confused. > When we elect what passes for a government, Parliament is dissolved, the > campaigning runs for about a month, then we pick the least offensive option. > I don't understand what the primarys are supposed to accomplish.
It's the stuff that is handled behind closed doors in party headquarters in much of the rest of the western world - to choose who will be the party candidate in the next election. If the American system could be compressed into a few weeks, rather than being spread out over more than a year, it would have a lot going for it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

