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Real town meetings--I mean the old-fashioned kind in which a town's voting population meets annually to bicker, gossip, elect councilmen, vote on bond issues--are anachronisms today, surviving only in a few eccentric backwaters of Ye Olde New England. But the pseudo town meeting, as developed by the President and his imagemakers, is a ubiquitous political gimmick, practiced by candidates nationwide. Perfected in the President's 1992 campaign, the format is familiar to anyone unlucky enough to own a TV. A television studio--or a hall outfitted like a TV studio--is filled with a carefully screened...
Currently the nine city councillors vote to elect the mayor from among their own ranks...
...With the treachery and dishonesty in this last mayoral election, it would make sense for the people of Cambridge to elect their own mayor either in the Worcester way or to directly elect the mayor and do away with the city manager altogether," Reeves says...
...this era was composed of Democrats from old Cambridge families "who felt that the way to keep their people in power was to elect them in a partisan way," Samp says...
FRANCE "...Americans ought to elect a Pope instead of a President. --Editorial, Le Figaro...