They didn't let me vote this time around

Italy just had a huge election. Silvio Berlusconi won by a large margin. Berlusconi is famous as Italy's richest man, owner of many TV stations, defendant against many fraud charges, and patient to many plastic surgeons. Basically he is a one man representation of modern Italian society. No one actually seems to like him, but somehow he managed to get 20 million votes or so. The one thing I am impressed about is that Italy really knows how to get an election done. In less than three months Italy went through an entire election cycle. It took less than three months to finish nominations, campaigning, having the election, and putting the winner in office. The US could learn a thing or two on the election front. I haven't heard much about Obama vs. Hilary recently. I assume everyone is sick of the whole thing.

Italy has about a million political parties from communist to fascist. This is a sign showing just some of the bigger parties.