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...
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The second pinhead is a junior in college.
Term limits and eliminating midterms are two different issues though.
Un.
****ing.
Believable.
In every liberal is a Anti-American, bloodthirsty, lawless, Constitution-hating, genocide-wanting tyrant.
BRILLIANT!!
The GOP thinks too small. The DNC now wants to eliminate elections. Talk about voter suppression!
This is even better than term limits:
www.iCongressNow.com
His real objection: white people vote.
Cry babies.
Maybe they should see a therapist so it will all go away.
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.
Hey Dave, Jay, with you clowns in charge “gridlock” is the best we can hope for!
“an election that’s 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.
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)
They know EXACTLY what they are saying. They are. simply, evil.
Liberty Valence needs ot visit New York and work over Pinch and the old gray ho
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.
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.
They make it sound like gridlock is bad.
That's all you need to read right there.
-PJ
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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