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The Minangkabau custom of freely electing their leaders provided the model for rulership elections in modern federal Malaysia.
A profile of 19 th -century illustrator Thomas Nast credits him with popularizing Santa Claus, electing Ulysses Grant, and ruining William "Boss" Tweed.
The most telling point of analysis in the piece comes from a Republican adviser, who says that since Clinton won't be able to get anything done anyway, he might as well concentrate on electing Gore and a Democratic House of Representatives next year.
The weirdest thing, to my mind, is the way the candidates and the media all seem to pretend that we are electing a benevolent dictator who, once elected, will snap his fingers, and the thousands of pages of position papers drawn up by his campaign staff will automatically become the law of the land.
Since California voters use ballot initiatives for serious policy changes, they don't mind electing do-nothing plutocrats.