Well, Dubya got in precisely because the US operates an indirect electoral system (although not one as baroque as you've described) - a direct election would have returned Gore instead. And as for Blair and brown, I don't know of any system that gets in the way of allies co-operating.
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Date: 2003-06-06 03:54 am (UTC)