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Nevertheless, both parties are very responsive to anything that earns them public appeal. Their lack of principle is actually useful in one sense: they generally try to reflect the motivations of the voters. So the vote can't be ignored or rationalized as not really a statement about what people want. While anyone may speculate about what the people "really" want, the vote is nevertheless the only poll that counts -- and, after all, is the system established by the Constitution.
If it's faulty, whatever part of it went faulty, it still shows once again how this perfect system implemented and maintained by imperfect humans will degenerate to something imperfect.
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