Posted on 10/08/2004 11:33:02 PM PDT by Cableguy
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. -- The congressional candidates' debate was supposed to be about foreign policy and the economy, but Democrat John Salazar started off by offering a farming tip.
"Being a potato farmer, I've learned that if you want to increase your harvest, you have to rotate your crops from time to time," the plain-spoken Salazar said. "Well, now it's time for Colorado to rotate its congressional crop, so we can get more of a harvest out of our representatives."
For most of the United States, there is almost no rotation of the political crop anymore in elections for the U.S. House. Politicians have created such extensive incumbent-protection mechanisms that more than 95 percent of the lawmakers who run for reelection routinely win. And most districts have been designed to be one-party monopolies, so there is rarely a party shift even when a seat opens.
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The proportional Electoral Vote amendment is absolutely outrageous. Don't people realize that this is just handing Kerry 4 EV's?
The debate is tomottow night from 6-7 PM.
tomottow=tomorrow.
SHEESH!
Where do Colorado liberals hail from? I always thought of CO as being conservative.
Actually can someone answer me a electoral college question. OK, so CO is said to be split 49 and 49 in popular vote. But the popular vote really only matters college by college, right? So that popular vote could be spread in such a way as to have a very different outcome when the colleges are added up?
Big deal, I learned about crop rotation in 3rd grade and I was never a farmer.
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