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Midterm elections attracting too many white voters
The Coach's Team ^ | 5/27/16 | Doug Book

Posted on 05/27/2016 8:54:17 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax

Just before the midterm election of 2014, Vice President Joe Biden made another of those insightful statements for which he will be forever remembered. Joe told CNN News that, "if you look at every single major issue of the campaign, the American public agree with [the White House] position." But if the vice president’s laugh-line-du-jour were actually true, why would his fellow liberals want to do away with the midterm election before Obama supporters had the opportunity to show just how loyal they really were?

It seems a “public policy” professor and a junior at Duke University had written an Op-Ed piece for the New YorkTimes in which they decided that “the 2 year [election] cycle isn’t just unnecessary; it’s harmful to American politics.” The authors maintained that after a president with a well-developed agenda (such as that of Hope and Change) enters the White House “…the midterm election cripples that same president’s ability to advance that agenda.”

Of course it’s just possible that midterm voters want no more of that “well-developed agenda” after 2 years have revealed what it is actually about.

There are 2 simple reasons that the left would want to end midterm elections. First, since World War II, Democrat presidents “have lost an average of 31 House seats and 4-5 Senate seats in midterms,” while Republican presidents have lost...

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: democratparty; elections; liberals
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To: hal ogen
I hope all “white” Americans continue to have as many children as they can. Keep these weirdo minorities in the minority. Demography is destiny.

I care much less about their skin color or point of origin than about their love of or disdain for traditional American culture.

21 posted on 05/27/2016 1:12:01 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Oldpuppymax

Another stupid old white man


22 posted on 05/27/2016 7:58:08 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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