Person or party

In another forum I read, the group has been discussing whether you should vote for the "person" or the "party." My answer is below.

I can remember sitting in my introductory political science class in the fall of, ahem, 1975, with the professor explaining how party affiliations were less important here than in Great Britain, that we didn't have a structure comparable to the British system of the party forming the government, etc. Here we governed by consensus, politics were local, parties were not ideoplogical, etc. Today of course, that just no longer applies. Perhaps at the state and local level one would vote "person," (like here in Illinois where we effectively have one-party rule, the Corruptocrats) but at the national level, in today's politics, party control over Congress is key. SO here would be my ballot in the Illinois 10th if both of these candidates were running, instead of just the bottom one:



SATAN, Prince of Darkness (D)



MARK KIRK (R)