No, if anything, parties are loosing power. The rise of the
independent candidates will continue to grow. I'd say in about
twenty years the Republican and Democratic parties will be gone.
I think Asbury Park is actually ahead of the rest in this area, keep
it non-partisan.
There is a city who had the same problem with too many candidates and
developed a way to elect the most preferred top five candidates out
of a field of many running. It might have been San Francisco. I'll
try and find something on it later.
And lastly, about weeding out nuts. Your point is not without
debate. I think we'd all agree many nuts get elected in the two
party system currently in place.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What do you folks think of having AP go to a party-system of
> election, rather than non-partisan. There would be primaries to
> weed out the nuts.
>
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