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[Starver]

(I thought the point was that he couldn't have been re-elected if he hadn't been elected in the previous term.  The view of that election, from this particular overseas standpoint[1], didn't really give him any of the desired-for legitimacy for his term in office.  But before I start spouting off about "what a strange meta-electoral method you Colonials have!", I'll admit that our Prime Minister is (generally!) just the guy/gal who happens to be leading the party that accumulated (or kept) the most constituency representatives.  Or the one that takes over from the previous one, in-between the occasions when the nation's people are supposed to have any say in the matter.)

[edited to correct dreadful grammar/add inexplicably missing words.  You know: prepositions, personal pronouns, other unimportant things...]

[1] I suppose it depends on if you trust the media outlets and national perspective involved.  Do you consider the likes of the BBC as unbiased enough yardstick?  And if Gore had 'won' by an estimated 125 individual votes, but much more because of a Supreme Court decree that he did so, I suspect we'd have been exactly as cynical about him, here in Britain.

[Kogan Loloklam]

I think the reason Obama doesn't shrug and say Romneycare is because it's funny watching Romney get booed by the NCAA.

But that is a good argument as to why he should step down. He did his part in Obamneycare and now is denying his bastard lovechild. We need call Maury Povich appearently.

I still think Stubbs would make a great president. He's been an Alaskan Mayor for 15 years and the Russians haven't dared invade during that time. He can probably beat Ron Paul in media attention while still stealing Paul's fanatical supporters. How's that for electability? And we all know he's got the Fat Cat vote! Plenty of money comes with that.

Strong in National Defense, strong mass appeal, good fundraising prospects. As an adopted child I'll bet he's pro-life too. A perfect Republican canadate.

Is he a Republican? If he is let's get him some delagate support.

[mainiac]

If he was interested in running he would have run in the primaries.  A dark horse candidate who didn't run in the primaries would be pretty much an electoral deathwish.

[Kogan Loloklam]

Mayor Stubbs does have a history of accepting the vote without having put it out there himself. So even if he didn't run himself I still think he'd step up to the plate and not turn it down. He does appear content just being a Mayor, but he'd get over it I think.

As for his political career, IF it was ruined by this, I still don't think he'd lose his mayorial seat which he seems content with, so I don't think there's any real risk to him. Delagates who support him might face concequences if he didn't go big, but if he had support on the scale of Paul I think it wouldn't be an issue anymore.