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Devastation: GOP Picks Up 680 State Legislature Seats
National Journal ^
| NOVEMBER 4, 2010
| Jeremy P. Jacobs
Posted on 11/04/2010 11:39:02 AM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: Paladin2
Too bad gerrymandering/packing doesn’t help the Senate races. Not gerrymandering, but the State Legislatures and Governors can be very important in efforts to clean up voter registration databases and the entire electoral processes.
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posted on
11/05/2010 10:06:46 AM PDT
by
meadsjn
(Sarah 2012, or sooner)
To: meadsjn
Excellent Point! Especially these dayz.
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posted on
11/05/2010 10:08:27 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: alancarp
He said he'd campaigned in 57 states and still had 1 more to go! Thank you, sir. I've always believed that even a liberal d-bag like Barry Hussein deserved the courtesy of accurate and honest reporting.
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posted on
11/05/2010 10:21:54 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: RobinMasters
Outstanding! Yes this picture is a great analogy!
To: SeattleBruce; aruanan
Bruce,
We're talking about the 17th. I'm certain it was central to the gravitation of power to the Federal Government.
aruanan,
"...sink [sic..."
I'm really got to stop posting just before going to bed and after having a drink. lol
To: Red Dog #1
We're talking about the 17th. I'm certain it was central to the gravitation of power to the Federal Government.
Having the senators appointed by the states made for all sorts of interesting arrangements between coalitions of states against the federal government. It was the perfect way to ensure multiple layers of factions and the wrangling and slowed down legislative "product" as the result. Didn't do as a senator what your state wanted, either as a creature of the legislature or of the governor? Wanted to be a maverick? You were out pushing daisies wherever mavericks that are good for nothing but trying to get their own way are sent. It made control of the state houses and the governorships (is that a word?) much, much more valuable for a single state or groups of states with common interests (oil or mining or agriculture or manufacturing or tourism, etc., etc.) and gave balance between populism exercised through the House and the federal government bureaucracy acting in its own interest and the states as states.
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posted on
11/05/2010 12:57:33 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Red Dog #1
‘I’m really got to stop posting just before going to bed and after having a drink. lol’
Right! But when else do we have time? :)
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:57:59 PM PDT
by
SeattleBruce
(We voted - NOW we fight against vote fraud! Tea Party like it's 1773! Pray 2 Chron. 7:14!)
To: SeattleBruce
In all honesty, I was drinking a Beam and Coke when I made the comment about not drinking and posting anymore. O:)
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