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These "petitions" are only there to find out what a small portion of the electorate want to hear during the election season. As mentioned elsewhere in these Wh

These "petitions" are only there to find out what a small portion of the electorate want to hear during the election season. As mentioned elsewhere in these White House petition threads, clicking a button on a web form does not (yet) do anything to the political process.

hugh3 15y ago
It's more cynical than that. Like the vast majority of online petitions, they exist primarily to harvest email addresses.