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Reply to "If you live in DC, do you call Eleanor Holmes Norton about particular issues?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I take all of the "DC rights" stuff with a grain of salt. Sure, I'd like to see voting representation in Congress, but the fact is that government is not all that democratic (with a small "d") at the DC level. Sure, it's very Democratic and therein lies a problem. It means that in a multi-candidate race, say for DC Council, a candidate can win the Democratic nomination with less than 20% of the vote, and then he/she is as good as elected in November. DC needs to do what some other jurisdictions like California have done, where one party has become dominant: In that case, the two top vote getters in the primary election face each other in November, like a runoff. It would be much more 'democratic' and ensure that voters actually faced a real choice in November. [/quote]
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