Posted on 02/24/2013 5:33:51 PM PST by neverdem
The old metrics don’t apply any more. The national news media is very nearly owned, lock, stock and barrel, by the commiescum left.
Election fraud has become so ubiquitous that few even notice anymore.
National policies, such as immigration, are being manufactured to support the left, exclusively, by flooding the country with millions who are guaranteed to vote Dem if they’re made legal to vote, and often are illegally registered to vote anyway.
Anyone who still believes there’s a peaceful way out of this, other than full on surrender, is a fool. The system is far too broken to be of any value in pushing back.
The truth is that Romney was a terrible candidate ~ he didn’t even start a campaign.
Teddy Roosevelt started the move to the Left ~ and that’s where he went.
The use of divided and separated powers, and dual government (states and the federal entity) mitigate the effect off a singular majority.
The existence of single member districts DESTROYS that effect. That's because the only way you can win is to get 50%+1 vote. This creates a situation where the losers have to coalesce to hope to have a chance to do that themselves.
American political results have been relatively evenly divided for 200 years ~ any particular district might go one way rather than the other, but in the aggregate, barring corrupt realignments of district lines, we come doggone close to that 50/50 balance that's imposed on our system.
In the interval between Buchanan and present, the Democrats also had Grover Cleveland do his win, lose, win thing (iow, two full terms, but didn’t succeed himself); he was the veto king I believe, until FDR hogged the office, and GC loved the so-called Robber Barons, leading to the Pubbies’ Progressive era.
...and thank you, L, for the thoughtful reply.
I tell my students that Cleveland was the last good Democrat.
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