The American president is chosen in a national convention, but in about two-thirds of the states the voters directly choose convention delegates committee to a particular presidential candidates. ... Democratic leaders believed that public primaries would legitimate the nominees, settle differences before the general election, and reduce the power of opposition voters. ... In a presidential election year the party of the winning presidential candidate usually gains state legislative seats; in the following midterm election that party usually loses seats. The larger the gain in a presidentia...

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Regardless of what you were taught to believe, you have no vote. Nor does any other person in this country except for the bureaucratic collective elite (called the electoral college.) Isn't it the ultimate right of the people to choose the leader of the free world, and not the duty of an out-of-tou...

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