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In response to "why? -- nm" by znufrii

1) harms smaller/non-media driven regions 2) creates a system where money-raising is the sole job of these people.

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Sep 17 '09, 07:23

becuase money buys votes via ads. threshold = more ads needed = more money needed = dollar race.

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if anything, I'd think a threshold neutralizes the fund-raising arms race, because once you have sufficient support, there is no further incentive - znufrii Sep 17, 07:31 7
- Never leave it to chance. Run up the score every single moment. - Will Hunting Sep 17, 07:33 2
  - I just thought of the perfect disincentive for this. - znufrii Sep 17, 07:42 1
    - So you'd throw out people who are clearly a choice of hundreds of thousands of people. - Will Hunting Sep 17, 07:47
- Well, except to keep others under the threshold, and thereby give your own vote more power. -- nm - TFox Sep 17, 07:32 3
  - okay, I can see that being a valid concern. - znufrii Sep 17, 07:37 2
    - you do not have to worry. it will never leave your own head,. -- nm - TFox Sep 17, 07:38 1
      - I don't have any doubt about that -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 07:40
and it also gets fucking Carrot Top and Fred Phelps elected, if you just need a viral Youtube video and 1,000 crazy fucks from anywhere to vote for yo -- nm - TFox Sep 17, 07:27 8
- I was thinking more like 500,000 - znufrii Sep 17, 07:29 7
  - 500.....in a voting pool of 100million tops = at most 200 representatives. - Will Hunting Sep 17, 07:32 3
    - i'm stopping now. every post i make, i realize it's akin to explaining why an ice cream flavor can't be Secretary of State. -- nm - TFox Sep 17, 07:33 2
      - Depends on which flavor. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 07:34 1
        
        Chunky Monkey would be a great ambassador to the international community, and a bastion of foreign policy ideals. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 07:45
  - You would need to set the bar either at the "top 400 vote getters", and it would curve steeply like presidential races... - TFox Sep 17, 07:30 2
    - I'd think about 300 would be ideal, but it should be a fixed number regardless, pegged at a certain percentage of the decennial Census count -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 07:33 1
      - i know you are smart. i wish you would use that to generate smart ideas. -- nm - TFox Sep 17, 07:34

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