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11 Feb 05 - 10:54 AM (#1405887) Subject: BS: US breaks USSR record From: Donuel Nathaniel Persily, an election law expert at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, said: "Something has changed. Voter preferences are becoming more and more predictable. There is a problem when the turnover in the United States House of Representatives is lower than it was in the Soviet Politburo." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/politics/07reform.html?oref=login&th |
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11 Feb 05 - 01:55 PM (#1406114) Subject: RE: BS: US breaks USSR record From: George Papavgeris It's called polarisation. |
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11 Feb 05 - 03:55 PM (#1406266) Subject: RE: BS: US breaks USSR record From: GUEST,skipy Was this record a 78RPM or a 45 or a 33 1/3/ Skipy |
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11 Feb 05 - 07:50 PM (#1406564) Subject: RE: BS: US breaks USSR record From: Bunnahabhain Polarisation, and Gerrymandering as well. BTW, can anybody think of anywhere else where someone's whole name has been turned into a phrase? Gerrymandering came from Mr. Gerry Mander, in Chicargo, but every other one only use part of the name... Bunnahabhain |
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12 Feb 05 - 01:42 PM (#1407336) Subject: RE: BS: US breaks USSR record From: Wolfgang Elbridge Gerry, actually. Wolfgang |
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12 Feb 05 - 01:57 PM (#1407353) Subject: RE: BS: US breaks USSR record From: Raedwulf Wolfgang is again correct. OED: early 19thC; from the name of Gov. Elbridge Gerry of Mass. + salamander, from the supposed similarity between a salamander & the shape of a new voting district on a map drawn when he was in office (1812), the creation of which was felt to favour his party. The map (with claws, wings, & fangs added) was published in the Boston Weekly Messenger with the titleThe Gerry-Mander. |
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12 Feb 05 - 01:59 PM (#1407354) Subject: RE: BS: US breaks USSR record From: Raedwulf Just checking the italics got switched off properly, cos suumat di'n't work right last time! |
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12 Feb 05 - 02:00 PM (#1407355) Subject: RE: BS: US breaks USSR record From: Wolfgang Elbridge Gerry, actually. Wolfgang |
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12 Feb 05 - 02:42 PM (#1407389) Subject: RE: BS: US breaks USSR record From: Raedwulf Wolfgang, yer going senile. You said that 20 minutes ago! |