Dear MEL Topic Readers,
The crazy way Americans elect their presidents
The road to the White House. Unlike the way to Carnegie Hall, practice,
practice and practice, the road to the house in Pennsylvania Avenue in
Washington D.C. demands more than any other show in the world. There are
numbers of events and challenges those runners have to undergo; the Iowa
caucus; the New Hampshire primary; Super Tuesday; the conventions; the
presidential debates, not to mention the continuous exposures and criticisms in
both public and social media. Even this author-journalist admits that it is a
guilty pleasure to play an influencing role to the public during the campaign
which could start as early as two years before the election.
Despite such big exposures in all sorts of media and costly campaigns,
the voter turnout has been quite, below 60%, at presidential elections since
1968. For a TV show, a viewer rate of over 50% is more than a dream but for an
election to decide the leader of the nation, what do you think?
Enjoy reading and thinking of the burden and cost to take part in this extravaganza.
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