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Thread #108397   Message #2255510
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
06-Feb-08 - 08:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Primaries
Subject: RE: BS: Primaries
It doesn't sound that complicated to me. If the mechanism exists to run a primary in the first place, rerunning it is no more complicated. And if there are fewer candidates, that just makes it simpler, and provides fro a more meaningful choice.

If the will is there, of course.

But though people talk about how important is to be democratic, that does seem more often than not to take second rank to calculations of political advantage.

Maybe with all that talk about "change" something could be done about that, rather than accept it as a rule of life.

And our system here is in a whole lot of ways less democratic, that goes without saying.