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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (150393)	6/4/2001 1:32:18 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 769670

I understand your point, but isn't a whole year enough time for us evaluate someone? Unless they purposefully keep their platform as dull, ambigious, and squishy as possible - which is the current case for both Republicans and Democrats in my opinion. I would argue having more voices, and especially voices independent of the two party system, would do more to raise the level of debate on the hard, real questions facing the nation. It may also merely raise the signal to noise ratio, who knows. I would like to see it given a try. If a candidate has their name on enough ballots to potentially give them an electoral college victory, or some other calculation of electoral fitness, put em in the debate and mix it up. I think it would do more good than harm. Derek