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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (17227)	5/25/2005 3:32:19 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 20773

Very interesting. Note, Denmark is similar but there one has "only one vote", one must decide to vote "person or party". (the german system is smarter?? less "tactical voting stuff") The "??" is right on target. IMO, it's very difficult to really rank political systems of democratic republics. They have similarities and differences. Sometimes signficant differences, but it's hard to tell in the larger context whether one is "better" than the other. I've noticed in other countries, for example, a lot of weight is placed on party platforms. Our party platforms are written, but perhaps with only a bit of exaggeration they are largely ignored. No candidate is bound by the party platform; we don't require that they endorse the platform; and we don't particularly pay any attention as to whether they followed the platform if they were elected. At best, we compare what they promised during the campaign vs. what they actually did. But we generally assume our politicians lie anyway when they're running for office. We've got over 200 years of conditioning to vote for persons, not parties. One could argue that the practical implementation these days is party, but I think it would be insurmountable under the current [or forseeable] political climate for us to migrate to a proportional system. jttmab