[msgilligan]

Sounds depressing (i.e. ~5000 in a typical US election)

[tomrod]

It gets really interesting when you look at the precinct and county level in the US, and similar types of views in European countries where they do real representative government.

[fakedang]

It's ironic that national level politics mirrors the kind that the founding fathers did not ever want happening, while local politics has the kind of representation that they actually had in mind (in most places).