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 presidents 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 isnt just unnecessary; its 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 presidents ability to advance that agenda.
Of course its 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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I care much less about their skin color or point of origin than about their love of or disdain for traditional American culture.
Another stupid old white man
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