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carenot - Shame on the Republican Party for not giving us a good candidate.
VRWC_minion - (Bush)is the most conservative person that can be elected. He cannot move farther right than 50.1% of the population in the states comprising an electoral majority.
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50.1 % of the population?!

We are NOT a Democracy, VRWC_minion, despite claims made by both Republican and Democratic Parties that we are.

This is a Constitutional Republic, and for a Republic to work, we must each of us vote for what we think is right, not for what we think will get the support of those we don't agree with.

[VRWC_minion]

This is a Constitutional Republic, and for a Republic to work, we must each of us vote for what we think is right, not for what we think will get the support of those we don't agree with.

I have no problem with that, just don't complain that the candidate that does get elected reflects what the majority of the voters in the majority of electoral states want. Thats our system. And currently it virtually guarantees that the kind of candidate the purists want to elect have as much a chance of getting elected and a flaming liberal.

Thats the system, like it or not.

PS, what is false about my comment that it takes 50.1% of the population in states comrpising the electoral majority ? Did the constitution get amended ?