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Lastly, proportional representation diminishes the force of big money in elections. In American politics today, pressure groups have arisen to positions of dominant importance that allow them inordinate influence and push our democratic institutions far from our ideals. Proportional representation, however, would enable candidates to be elected with a truly representative portion of the votes, and helping them concentrate on their assured constituency rather than on high-priced swing votes and creating a far more democratic method of selecting our representatives within all facets of elected government...
...such feature might be the message-board, which would allow qualified posters to make announcements to relevant users...
...first release, that ability will be restricted to selected administrators, such as the Dean of FAS and the Dean of the College, but future revisions would allow coaches to send schedule-changes to their team, or clubs to make announcements to members...
...they were joined by only eight Republicans, leaving them seven votes short of the 60 they needed to defeat the filibuster. Although the bill's sponsors - Senators McCain and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) - had narrowed down the legislation into a ban on the unlimited soft-money contributions that allow corporations to pour millions of dollars into party coffers, the vote followed last year's pattern...
According to Murray, Harvard's research facilities provide an excellent resource for tapping these methods, which Murray said allow "a quantum leap in our understanding" of the principles of genetic adaptation...