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   From: lcraver@home.ca   
      
   On 29 Aug 2008 17:10:28 GMT, "Dan Goodman"  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.   
      
   I >DID< know that - but then I lived in Winnipeg some 20 years ago...   
      
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