Timeline for Presidential Race
02-05-2007, 05:59 PM
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Timeline for Presidential Race
Do you think it's right for candidates to start campaigning a full year before any of the primaries? That's 22 months before the election! How can anyone currently holding a political office perform their duties while on the fund raising trail?
Our local government has a law that you must resign your current elected post when you register to run for another. Adopting that rule would surely change future presidential races!
Our local government has a law that you must resign your current elected post when you register to run for another. Adopting that rule would surely change future presidential races!
02-05-2007, 06:00 PM
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Well the good thing is, Bush can't run again. It goes against the Constitution (two term limit) so finally we'll have a different president. These last 6 years were rough, this year will be rough, next year will suck. 
02-05-2007, 06:06 PM
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Yup, that is one of the BIG problems with our system. Office holders spend a lot of time and OUR money trying to get reelected.
No real cure other than perhaps longer terms, so we get a bit more time out of them before they begin getting totally distracted on their reelection circus, oh, I mean circuit!
No real cure other than perhaps longer terms, so we get a bit more time out of them before they begin getting totally distracted on their reelection circus, oh, I mean circuit!
02-05-2007, 06:15 PM
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02-05-2007, 06:16 PM
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