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Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Why or why not vote in elections: 20 of 26

With the Iowa Republican Party Straw Poll coming up on Saturday in Ames - and to be broadcast nationwide on C-Span - you've got to ask yourself: Is this really democracy? Let me start out by saying you have to pay $36 just to vote in the thing. That's right. $36. And you'll be a big important mover and shaker within the GOP in the Hawkeye State. Mike Huckabee, the former Governor of Arkansas who is putting a lot of stock in the Straw Poll as it pertains to his candidacy, admitted yesterday on Hardball with Chris Mathews that the whole thing was just pretty much a gigantic fundraiser for th...
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