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Cancel the Midterms
New York Times ^
| November 3, 2014
| David Schanzer and Jay Sullivan
Posted on 11/03/2014 4:12:18 AM PST by Jim Noble
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To: V_TWIN
The second pinhead is a junior in college.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:29:58 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: goldstategop
Term limits and eliminating midterms are two different issues though.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:30:39 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Jim Noble
Un.
****ing.
Believable.
In every liberal is a Anti-American, bloodthirsty, lawless, Constitution-hating, genocide-wanting tyrant.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:31:19 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
To: gusopol3
cancel tenure BRILLIANT!!
To: Jim Noble
The GOP thinks too small. The DNC now wants to eliminate elections. Talk about voter suppression!
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:33:44 AM PST
by
firebasecody
(Orthodoxy, proclaiming the Truth since AD 33)
To: Olog-hai
This is even better than term limits:
www.iCongressNow.com
To: Jim Noble
Another quirk is that, during midterm elections, the electorate has been whiter, wealthier, older and more educated than during presidential elections. His real objection: white people vote.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:35:20 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: Jim Noble
Cry babies.
Maybe they should see a therapist so it will all go away.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:35:56 AM PST
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: Olog-hai
Eliminating midterms would see the President and Congress elected at the same time by the same electorate.
It would make Congress align more with whoever the elected President is since no mid term elections exist.
We’re the only country with the practice. In parliamentary systems, the government is the same as parliament so divided government is impossible but there can be and have been various coalition or minority governments under it in some countries.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:36:08 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Jim Noble
Hey Dave, Jay, with you clowns in charge “gridlock” is the best we can hope for!
“an election thats almost certain to create greater partisan divisions, increase gridlock and render governance of our complex nation even more difficult.”
When YOU say “partisan” you mean conservatives aren’t caving in to your fascist agenda.
From where I sit, that’s a good thing.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:37:06 AM PST
by
G Larry
(Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
To: Jim Noble
Whatever happened to the "tyranny of the majority" meme? Remember? Those in the minority get special handicaps to give them power. Why not an ELECTION.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:38:03 AM PST
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: Jim Noble
Another quirk is that, during midterm elections, the electorate has been whiter, wealthier, older and more educated than during presidential elections. Biennial elections require our representatives to take this into account, appealing to one set of voters for two years, then a very different electorate two years later.
Do the communists at the Slimes have any idea what they are saying in this excerpt? (of course they don't - they're stupid leftists)
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:38:20 AM PST
by
newfreep
("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
To: newfreep
They know EXACTLY what they are saying. They are. simply, evil.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:39:37 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
To: Jim Noble
Liberty Valence needs ot visit New York and work over Pinch and the old gray ho
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:40:08 AM PST
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
To: unixfox
Maybe they should see a therapist so it will all go away. Well, they could get "Party Affiliation Change" therapy, at least.
If one can go so far to change his sex, he can change his political philosophy.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:40:38 AM PST
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: G Larry
The other flaw in the ointment is liberals want to preserve their ability to obstruct a conservative President.
Which is another reason getting rid of mid-term elections will never fly.
People in this country paradoxically enough love divided government more than they hate it.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:41:00 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Jim Noble
They make it sound like gridlock is bad.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:41:09 AM PST
by
palmer
(Ind. Health Dept. monitoring 6 for Ebola like symptoms)
To: Jim Noble
Another quirk is that, during midterm elections, the electorate has been whiter, wealthier, older and more educated than during presidential elections. That's all you need to read right there.
-PJ
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:41:15 AM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: SunkenCiv
The main impact of the midterm election in the modern era has been to weaken the president, the only government official (other than the powerless vice president) elected by the entire nation.
That's not quite true, nor was it intended to be that way. The electoral college is fine aside from the fact that winner take all states are a bad idea.
The representatives are the ones who most closely represent the will of the voters down to the smallest number of individuals.
The senate is supposed to represent the states and if not for the 17th amendment should nearly mirror the house. Unfortunately both sides in the senate are addicted and protective of the DC centric power. Its one of the reasons I believe the GOP was so quick to throw Terri Land and anchor in Michigan. She talks a lot about returning the powers to the states and letting the states keep more of their own money to provide for their own infrastructure needs.
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:43:25 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: Jim Noble
One way you can tell when a society has more wealth than it needs is when you see people coming up with REALLY STUPID IDEAS, such as putting a cross with Jesus on it in a jar and then (...you know the rest).
In the case of Midterms, the professor/author is so BLINDED by his HATRED towards conservatives that he is unable to even figure out why we have Midterms, so I’ll help him (needless to say, the co-author kid isn’t worth wasting bandwidth on):
Unfortunately, presidential elections are more personality contests then they are elections about the national direction. People knew what party Obama was from and where he stood with that party (i.e., on the left side of everything), but they chose to simply IGNORE IT, because they fell in love with the guy, and that was it. Once the president started doing pretty much exactly what he said he would do, people freaked...and thankfully they had a chance in 2010 to send a message about it.
Fortunately the Midterms don’t deal with personality cults nearly as much, they are referendums on the direction of the country - if people don’t like the direction, it is their chance to SEND A MESSAGE. Republicans have been on the receiving end of the angry voter message as much as Democrats, particularly in 1986 and 2006, when Congress flipped to Dems. But we never demanded that the Constitution be changed (other than adding an amendment outlawing political participation from anyone with the name of Karl Rove).
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:44:18 AM PST
by
BobL
(Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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