'I like the American system'

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Apart from circuses featuring rope skipping monkeys and elephants that think better than politicians, there is no greater spectacle than the US presidential elections.

And the money spent by just one of those candidates makes me weep when I think of my draught-stricken Africa.

I enjoy watching the election circus, though, but feel repulsed by an electoral system that does not recognise the power of the individual voter. For, as has become clear now, one can get more popular votes and still lose to the other who gets less.

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