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Maybe Perot isn’t your man, and that’s fine, buta country isn’t getting what it apparently wants because Plush men will lose to the crooked in games The head of the Green Party does represent change though. It may not be © the right change or the perfect change, but it is a curve compared to the mainstreamed politics of the biggies. . Because he is there in the running and he represents other unseen and — unheard incumbents, he deserves to _ be heard just like the rest of them, but instead, the Green party sits out the debates and the media coverage. Their voices aren't being heard because $13.99 Installed CARPET, Assuming that your cafididiate of — choice doesn’t have a chance in hell is what perpetuates the lack of media. coverage of the whole candidacy spectrum. We only see the likes of Gore and Bush on our televisions and at crucial debates because that is all the networks assume we want to see. 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