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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (72467)	1/14/2006 10:35:46 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

gee I thought there was more then one woman in the Senate

To: American Spirit who wrote (72467)	1/15/2006 8:16:41 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 81568

One very youthful nation has a minimum of 25% women in their houses and upper senates. Note, the swedes are really funny, they are using the same closed list system to cheat in PR systems. That is why we open-list, proportional representation ones have so much funny. However, the road ahead for true two-party systems is really extremely long and windy, lots of uphills but also some downhills, if they are gerrymandered possible.

To: American Spirit who wrote (72467)	1/15/2006 8:28:33 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Sad thing, a true American Dilemma, that those words of that first (blessed) document never got into the constitution. (OK, those were tough times for the true Dilemma) It could even have given a female representation of something like 2/3 or 3/5 votes, if applied, and it would not have caused even a slight shaking of the funny majority-system. (however, some female filibuster in the senate??) Personally I have always been fascinated with the US-democrazy possibility of gerrymandering even more smartly, collecting all the women in their own salamander winner-takes-all districts, carefully drawing the frontiers of every district in the middle of every bedroom. 52% blessed majority in the blessed and funny US democrazy?? However, my experience is that very few true two-party members understand how funny they are.

To: American Spirit who wrote (72467)	1/15/2006 8:35:02 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

It is incredibublebable the way those gerrymandering FEC rules produced a proportional representation result, especially as it does not matter whatever way the voters vote, anyway. There was a time when there were only one Jim Crow in the US congress but then the decision was made to manipulate the funny districts to make the lower house proportional. Did not take that many elections to achieve that perfect 12% representation, but not in the senate.. Funny Stuff.