I'm pretty sure it died after the 1984 election. This is not a new phenomenon. No leading candidate since then has been other than a puppet. Any outsider who even begins to threaten to rise to prominence gets the Ron Paul/Sarah Palin ridicule treatment, with big money behind it.
I’m pretty sure it[voting] died after the 1984 election.
WHAT A CONCEPT!.... I remember 1988.. Reagan was so loved Howdy Doodie could have been elected..
You know... If he was a republican.. AND HE WAS ELECTED..
Somebody Howdie Doodie-LIKE....
It took George Bush Jr. to actually LOOK LIKE HOWDIE DOODIE..
When Jr. was elected I JUST KNEW somebody was laughing hard somewhere..