Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post01.iad!news.shared-secrets.com!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:19:19 +0900 From: CL User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081125 Thunderbird/2.0.0.18 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Pushing on a piece of string References: <2cc55ece-0a0b-4fb1-bae0-df2ff9b40471@r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <0ba196f8-f129-48d3-a233-111235036769@m4g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <4950467a$0$31208$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> <22957c6c-fdac-482e-8afd-3493f12750c3@g3g2000pre.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <22957c6c-fdac-482e-8afd-3493f12750c3@g3g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4950c947$0$31163$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> Organization: Unknown X-Complaints-To: abuse@shared-secrets.com Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:167815 Declan Murphy wrote: > I can't see any reason why it couldn't be done within 48 hours of the > election, the way it is in every other developed country with a > democratic system. The only problem might be the sheer number of > appointees the US system seems to involve. It smells too much like a coup d'etat or royal succession. Besides, as a representative democracy, there has to be time for the House and Senate races to be settled. My own "home" state has still not declared the winner of the US Senate seat contest, yet. The incumbent excrescence, Norm "Smarmy Normy" Coleman, seems to be leading by less than one hundred votes out of three million cast. -- CL