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Might I point out the original topic was stated in reference to presidental elections and not state, city or county proposition votes.
Of course you may, its a free country.
May I also point out that you cannot simply go to the polls every four years and vote only for President. To my knowledge the ballot for President is the same as the one with all the local offices and propositions in every state. In most states incomplete ballots are discarded and not counted.
This means that everyone who only votes every four years and wants their vote to count has the same responsibility for local items as the real voters who vote every election and read their pamphlets.
My point is simple, local elections matter. Presidential elections matter too, but whoever sits in the White House does not have the power to change your life like your neighbors do.
There are far too many four-year-wanna-be-voters without consideration for local issues which will affect them and their community wether they realize it or not. This has been an enormous problem for quite some time, and has the most negative consequences on our democracy. The way it stands today, the CA proposition system should be discarded for lack of real interest (not to mention the fact that the state government has been abusing the system to generate cash for the past 20 years).
Its easy to blame one person for all rights and wrongs, its much harder to look into the mirror and realize where responsibility starts and ends.
If all you want to research for the election is the Presidential candidates.. do everyone a favor and stay home.
Edited, Fri Jul 16 18:36:13 2004 by Yinnyin