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   From: dsgood@iphouse.com   
      
   William Black wrote:   
      
   >   
   > "Dan Goodman"  wrote in message   
   > news:48b75510$1$60075$804603d3@auth.newsreader.iphouse.com...   
   >   
   > > (If you're a citizen and resident of another country and are certain   
   > > you understand US politics, answer this question without looking it   
   > > up:  What party controls the upper house of the Nebraska   
   > > legislature?)   
   >   
   > 1.  How many US citizens within the USA who take an interest in   
   > politics know this?   
   >   
   > 2.  Why should anyone outside the USA (indeed,  outside Nebraska)   
   > care?   
      
   You don't have to care.  But if you can't answer that question without   
   looking it up, you do _not_ fully understand US politics.   
      
   And anyone really knowledgeable about national US politics would be   
   aware of two reasons why that's a trick question.  To begin with, would   
   know without looking it up that North Dakota has a unicameral   
   legislature.   
      
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