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we have what amounts to a sham election process. In this, I must fault the media more so than the major parties as media has the final approval of which candidates get coverage. The arrogance of the partisan politics so evident in most major media must be balanced somewhere; there must be open and copious access to ALL candidates for major and minor office in order to assure free elections. Only an informed electorate can make a knowledgeable decision.

For over a year, as prices rose and incomes fell, we were told by both major parties that the economy was "not an issue". Obviously what the voters saw as a major issue truly was major-and we are reaping the unfair burdens of this non-issue in our daily lives. Because of this, we have been force-fed a solution that penalizes the common man while removing a large portion of our sovereign rights, likely forever. If better solutions had been allowed before the people in a timely manner by other candidates, perhaps the electorate would have had stronger grounds on which to demand a better solution. Likewise, we have been prevented from asking about what plans are in the offing to control illegal immigration as we see our lives being impacted by it in many ways. Again, we are told it is "not an issue". In both of these examples, the will of the voters are being circumvented via having our only allowed choices refuse to discuss the issues in depth, and where both candidates secretly hold very similar-and unacceptable- views. We are right to fear the outcome as both major Presidential candidates appear to hold views that conflict dynamically with that of the majority of Americans. Certainly, whoever is elected will profess a mandate from the people to do what he intended to do anyway, simply by virtue of his election. And he will be elected simply because we were not offered a true choice. Our information has been limited. None are allowed to ask the right questions.

A free press is the linchpin of a free people. It appears we have lost access to free and non-partisan media coverage. Because of this, our election processes, at least for the Presidential election have been taken from us. Our current election choices differ from the typical communist one candidate/you must vote for me' elective farce only in that we have two candidates with minor differences and who differ not at all on major "non-issues" that determine our future and that of our children and grandchildren. This could never have happened without the active collusion of the major media, with which our access to candidates was un-Constitutionally limited. The Republic will be lost because of non-issues. No one except the media is in a position to ask the questions we want answered-and they won't ask them.

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