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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - February 8 | 102 comments (102 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

This is a delightful development in the non-stop trainwreck that has been the Republican Primary. Obama will of course be re-elected, that's not even the story here.

by paving on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 06:13:07 PM EST
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No, the question is whether this is how a political party dies.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 06:32:23 PM EST
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No, it's a question of whether the political system dies. The only reason the Democrats aren't having this same sort of problem is that they aren't running primaries this year.

We need to get away from the primary system because it is what is driving the divisive political positioning. Right at the moment I favor a series of ranking elections--each one basically a non-partisan open primary using a ranking system. That way you can gradually move towards a single candidate...

by asdf on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 09:43:43 PM EST
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Like the Louisiana primaries, for instance?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 9th, 2012 at 03:58:14 AM EST
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