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Who else for president?
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jkinneman
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  Posted: Jul 30th, 2007 07:41 pm
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My concern with a national primary is I think it would tend to be much like the national election and the amount of travel and costs would go way up so I am not sure we would get to know the candidate any better, as with the national election they would just focus on the states they need to win to get nominated. 
 
An idea that I like is to break up the country into 4 or 5 blocks of about equal size and run a primary in each block.  A block would ideally be states next/near to each other making travel easier and cheaper.  Not exactly but the blocks of states would tend to have similar issues that the candidate would have to address but at the same time keep in mind that a position taken in one block may work against him/her in the next block.  Since the block would be made up of big and small states the candidates could take different approaches to get the votes they think they need but in general I think they would need to campaign in more states than the current process.
 
Each election cycle a different block would go first so that who goes first would not be something to fight over.



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  Posted: Aug 3rd, 2007 12:29 am
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Getting away from politics for a minute to comment on the tragic bridge collapse.   I heard on the news tonight (CNN) that there are 70,000 to 80,000 bridges in the US that are structurally unsound. First,  I wondered how they found this information so quickly.  Maybe there's a data base somewhere that keeps these kinds of records. Second, I will be looking for a large signs with flashing lights that tell me when a bridge is on this list. 


Oops, sorry, I've posted under the wrong topic.
 

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