![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
polling results
Apr. 19th, 2004 09:09 amI was curious, so I checked to see what the latest polling results were for the presidential election.
November is still a long way away in political terms, but I'm disturbed that Kerry hasn't opened out a wider lead by now. Who are all of these people who think Bush is doing a good job? How is it possible for them to believe that?
What is going to happen if we have another election like the last one, where half the country votes one way, half the other, and we have the election decided by the margin of error, let alone a split election like the last, where the person that more citizens voted for doesn't get elected? How many times can that happen before the democratic system starts breaking down? I'm becoming less concerned about democracy working in Iraq and more about it working here. Even if the electorate is not bitterly divided, the politicians they have to choose from are very, very far apart.
November is still a long way away in political terms, but I'm disturbed that Kerry hasn't opened out a wider lead by now. Who are all of these people who think Bush is doing a good job? How is it possible for them to believe that?
What is going to happen if we have another election like the last one, where half the country votes one way, half the other, and we have the election decided by the margin of error, let alone a split election like the last, where the person that more citizens voted for doesn't get elected? How many times can that happen before the democratic system starts breaking down? I'm becoming less concerned about democracy working in Iraq and more about it working here. Even if the electorate is not bitterly divided, the politicians they have to choose from are very, very far apart.
