startribune.com— Hillary may have had a 2% popular lead over Obama, but it's meaningless because both Obama and Hillary got 9 delegates creating a tie in NH.
Jan 9, 2008View in Crawl 4
Here's the whole first part of the definition you looked up:"government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections."Does "indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections" do the trick?Your 2nd-grade definition of democracy as a clusterf**k of people rushing to the polls to cast a vote for every bill is a bit dated. Try reading Alexis de Tocqueville's _Democracy_in_America_, and see if that doesn't help you out a bit.
ufeeJan 11, 2008
...Republicans? Democrats?STFU.
deadmooJan 11, 2008
Only half, but not all. At least the republicans still get to vote.
djreedJan 18, 2008
Let's take Hillary down together!<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Paulites_Let_s_Take_Down_Hillary_13_500_More_Donations">http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Paulites_Let_s_T ...</a>
fratermJan 21, 2008
Looks like the Hilary dissent suppression patrol is thick on Digg today. Here's a big fat middle finger to you all, you're no better than Neocons.
cwgannonJan 29, 2008
Here's the whole first part of the definition you looked up:"government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections."Does "indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections" do the trick?Your 2nd-grade definition of democracy as a clusterf**k of people rushing to the polls to cast a vote for every bill is a bit dated. Try reading Alexis de Tocqueville's _Democracy_in_America_, and see if that doesn't help you out a bit.