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> At 1:07 AM -0500 13/12/00, Issodhos @aol.com wrote:
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> >   And like most party propagandists it is your desire to manipulate and
> >deceive the gullible.  Your reference to winning a popular vote, as though
> >that held any relevance in a presidential election, is meant to indicate that
> >some type of chicanery took place in order to defeat the sad sack selected by
> >Party Democrat to represent your utterly corrupt party's desire to maintain
> >power.
>
> Have I misunderstood the US electoral system? I thought a political
> party's presidential candidate was chosen by anyone who wanted to
> register as a supporter of that party, rather than by actual party
> members. As I understand it, that means that supporters of one party
> could even register as supporters of another party, to help install
> an incompetent as the opposition candidate.
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tas
>