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To: michael97123 who wrote (39991)	11/26/2000 3:12:44 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 70976

The election is coming down to 9 votes.......the Supreme Court. The Delphic Oracle will Speak, and All will be Decided. Maybe Bush and Gore could agree to time-share......Bush is President in the Spring and Summer, and Gore gets the Fall and Winter....it would suit their personalities. Or maybe they can split the turf: Gore gets to rent out the White House on weekdays (to pay for his environmental and health care agenda), and Bush gets the White House for partying on weekends. I no longer believe in representative democracy. I'd like to go to direct democracy: extend the referendum system to the Federal level. So, I could sit at my PC at home, and vote online for which Federal Budget I want, after reviewing the online summaries of the Democratic and Republican proposals. The argument against this is that the voters are too stupid to make good decisions, and should leave it to the experts. This was the same argument that restricted the franchise to white, male, property owners when Washington was President. I'd bet taxes would be lower if the taxpayers directly voted on the tax laws. Our elected officials would be managers, not leaders. Special interest groups would fire all their lobbyists, and spend the money on direct appeals to the voters.