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    How come we choose from just two people to run President, but over fifty for Miss America ?

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    Miss America entrants don't have to have millions of dollars to run for their office!  Most presidential candidates can't sing or dance!

    yeah!!  and how come in the Miss Universe pagent it's always one of our earth girls that wins... Come on universe chicks, you aren't even trying!!

    Dardaigh

    Hilarious!!!

    Perhaps because our priorities are screwed up and our electoral system is severely broken.  :)

    Jack Large

    Actually we have two major parties from which to chose but there are up to twelve or more others on the ballot in many states..

    Communistst, Constitution Party, Green Party, Libertarian Party, Independents, Boston Tea Party, New American Independent Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation arty Liberation Party Prohibition Party, Reform Party, Socialist Party USA, Socialist Workers Party and Independence Party, Constitution Party to name a few.

    Those candidates who receive fewer than 5% of the votes cast, generally not listed on the final returns, nor are write-in candidates who receive fewer that 1%, listed.

    Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

    What a great question, Jack.


    My half-cents worth is there should be more than two.

    The problem with third parties in the past was the leader of the two major parties in Pre-election poling, LOST the election.   ;(


    Ross Perot put Clinton in office, for example with less than 50% of the votes cast .


    The Bull Moose Party with Teddy Roosevelt got into the race, split the Republican voters during the election and enabled Woodrow Wilson, the Liberal Democrat, to be elected President. Wilson, a "Progressive," became one of the few, "minority" Presidents who did not get more than 50 %


     

    Dardaigh

    Yes, I can see what you are saying. Happens in Canada sometimes.


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