Cancel the Midterms

New York Times ^ | November 3, 2014 | David Schanzer and Jay Sullivan

[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...

[SunkenCiv]

Not to mention the fact that the NY Slimes was probably in the forefront of media shills calling for the abolition of the Electoral College in the aftermath of the 2000 election fiasco in which Al Gore tried to steal the Presidency.

[Clay Moore]

At least we know they would write the same thing regardless if it was Obola or President Palin. /S

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I’m sure it’s just my memory failing me, but I don’t recall seeing this sentiment anywhere in 2006.

[goldstategop]

When we elect a Republican President, liberals will come to love gridlock.

Then you will hear them tout the advantages of electing a Democratic Congress to serve as a check on his excesses and to repudiate unpopular policies.

That serves both side’s political interests too, depending on who is in favor with the electorate at a given time.

[Maceman]

More proof, as if any were needed, that college is just a place to go to get stupider.

It used to be — back in the 1970s — that college freshmen entered Harvard with “a skull full of mush.”

Now they leave with a skull full of mush, and go on to be tenured professors at other colleges including Duke University.

[hinckley buzzard]

Sieg Heil

[austinaero]

Tomorrow Americans get to speak at the polls.

LET IT BE LOUD!!!!

[stockpirate]

Actually we should not even bother with elections unless we allow every one in the world vote, it’s only fair..

[JPJones]

Let’s just get rid of elections all together.

One nation
One Party
One Leader

NYT jumps the shark....again.

[cripplecreek]

As it is, I would like to see Michigan’s electoral votes awarded according to districts won. If a candidate wins 8 districts, that’s all the electoral votes he gets from that state.

That way, they could produce a billion votes in Detroit and it wouldn’t mean a thing because they would still only win the electoral vote of the district.

It also much more closely represents the will of the people like the house.

[Fresh Wind]

Even Hitler didn’t cancel elections, but for some odd reason, there was only one party allowed in those elections, something DemocRats fervently hope for in the USA.

[polymuser]

David and Jay, you are losers. Just losers.

[stockpirate]

Even if Republicans win they will “share power” with their democrat fascist friends just like last time.

[Fresh Wind]

Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Obama

[stockpirate]

There is no merit to your suggestion...

[DJ MacWoW]

"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for;
but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy
as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."
James Madison Federalist No. 58, 1788

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[jmaroneps37]

The Left’s Islamist allies would call this suggestion a HUDNA which is a fake truce.

[katana]

Gridlock is a key intended outcome in the Founders’ conception of a Constitutional Republic which might have some chance of not degrading into a tyranny. Of course the indoctrinated Marxists who inhabit Academia and the editorial desks at the NY Times see this as an obstacle. It is.

[samtheman]

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.

When I read a comment like yours -- so perfect a response to the leftist writer on display in this thread -- it makes me want to register to comment on a bunch of other sites, like the slimes and other leftist rags, so I can repost some of the great stuff here in FR... just so that others can get the benefit.

I often think of doing that, but never do it. Just don't have the time. Maybe when I retire.

[gasport]

NYT sez-
“Another quirk is that, during midterm elections, the electorate has been whiter, wealthier, older and more educated than during presidential elections.”

There is a solution: Unless the voter is a member of an oppressed class, limit the franchise to those under 60. The future does not belong to geezers.

/s