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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

By Tuesday night about 90 million Americans will have cast ballots in an election that’s almost certain to create greater partisan divisions, increase gridlock and render governance of our complex nation even more difficult. Ninety million sounds like a lot, but that means that less than 40 percent of the electorate will bother to vote...

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. Since the end of World War II, the president’s party has on average lost 25 seats in the House and about 4 in the Senate as a result of the midterms...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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Here we go. If you let them talk, they will eventually confess...

And they wonder why we need large cap mags...

1 posted on 11/03/2014 4:12:18 AM PST by Jim Noble
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To: Jim Noble

Why not make him king?


2 posted on 11/03/2014 4:16:59 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: Jim Noble

How utterly void of logic and decency these overlords in the media show themselves to be - I find it chilling.


3 posted on 11/03/2014 4:17:59 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Jim Noble

Hey, Duke prof, better idea: let’s cancel tenure. It made sense once, when colleges needed to hang on to the few Ph. D.’s there were, but now it’s a buyers’ market. Pack your bags.


4 posted on 11/03/2014 4:19:11 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: Jim Noble

Summation: “My side is losing. Let’s change the rules. It’s only fair.”


5 posted on 11/03/2014 4:19:28 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: Jim Noble
NOT SATIRE
6 posted on 11/03/2014 4:19:42 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Jim Noble

If only we could stop all this voting and just let democrats have their way with America.....


7 posted on 11/03/2014 4:20:06 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Jim Noble

If the Dems were cruising to victory, the Slimes would not run a piece like this.


8 posted on 11/03/2014 4:20:25 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Jim Noble

This is what makes me want to vote. Gawd, these people are arrogant. They will not accept any outcome other than they win, AND YOU? You wouldn’t even get a vote, ever.


9 posted on 11/03/2014 4:20:42 AM PST by dforest
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To: Jim Noble

So, because democrats are going to lose, there should not be an election.
The times has lost all claim to be a valid newspaper and should go out of business.


10 posted on 11/03/2014 4:20:47 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Jim Noble

I don’t remember this rhetoric being used by the NYT when midterms came during a Republican incumbent president?


11 posted on 11/03/2014 4:22:18 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

They just couldn’t fall back on that tried-and-true mantra Democrats spout incessantly when they lose: “Republicans will now have to lead, and that means WORKING [capitulating to] with their American brothers and sisters across the aisle.”

They are even tired of that - “let’s just do away with the mid terms altogether”. We can’t win on ideas - we have to depend on a concocted charismatic chameleon to sweep our dredges into office.

News flash! Elections have consequences. Yours are coming tomorrow.


12 posted on 11/03/2014 4:23:15 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Another creepy shill piece from the Party of the Single Party State:

> 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. Since the end of World War II, the president’s party has on average lost 25 seats in the House and about 4 in the Senate as a result of the midterms...

“...and while that doesn’t concern us when a Republican is President...”

Thanks Jim Noble.


13 posted on 11/03/2014 4:23:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“My side is losing. Let’s change the rules. It’s only fair.”

Exactly.

Also, why does it always take TWO pinheads to write crap like this.


14 posted on 11/03/2014 4:23:44 AM PST by V_TWIN
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(snip) “Ninety million sounds like a lot, but that means that less than 40 percent of the electorate will bother to vote... “

So what are the best case losing 49% of that forty percent whining about those who win? Seems like 60% couldn’t give a crap. Maybe that is where the socialists at the NYT ought to be focused on, but then again, maybe it has more to do with their reporting of the news that foments apathy in the first place.


15 posted on 11/03/2014 4:24:35 AM PST by mazda77
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To: Jim Noble

I don’t know. So much time, money and psychic energy go into elections like this . . . and then whatever positive outcomes may result are soon eliminated by the ruling elites, either through unelected regulators or unelected judges. Democracy in the United States is effectively over. Why pretend otherwise?


16 posted on 11/03/2014 4:25:37 AM PST by madprof98
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To: freeangel
"I don’t remember this rhetoric being used by the NYT when midterms came during a Republican incumbent president?"

Certainly not in 2006, when George Bush was the president.

17 posted on 11/03/2014 4:26:27 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: dforest
This is what makes me want to vote. Gawd, these people are arrogant. They will not accept any outcome other than they win, AND YOU? You wouldn’t even get a vote, ever.

Its what people need to understand before sitting this election out because of imperfect candidates. At least the RINOs aren't openly plotting to deny us a right to vote.
18 posted on 11/03/2014 4:26:53 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Correct. There was certainly no call for canceling the mid-term elections back in 2006.


19 posted on 11/03/2014 4:29:03 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Jim Noble

There is merit in electing half the House every four years and extending Senate terms to eight years. I’d like to see congressional and Senate terms capped at eight years so no one in Congress serves longer in Washington than a sitting President could.

That’s exactly though why its DOA. No congressional incumbent will voluntarily give up their lifetime tenure, certainly not in exchange for more time in office. And Senators would never agree to give sitting House members the ability to replace them when their term of office is up.

For better or worse, midterm elections will always it seems, be fated to be with us.


20 posted on 11/03/2014 4:29:10 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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