2-Party system dead in Mississippi?


	2-Party system dead in Mississippi?

Monkfishy

11-7-2007 11:40 AM

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politics, mississippi, democrat, republican, elections

Monkfishy says:

If all politics are local politics, what does this mean for the rest of the country?

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