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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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To: cripplecreek

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.


41 posted on 11/03/2014 4:44:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Jim Noble

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


42 posted on 11/03/2014 4:47:03 AM PST by Clay Moore ("911 is for when the backhoe won't start." JRandomFreeper)
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To: Jim Noble

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


43 posted on 11/03/2014 4:47:20 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: palmer

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.


44 posted on 11/03/2014 4:48:05 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Jim Noble

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.


45 posted on 11/03/2014 4:48:53 AM PST by Maceman
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To: Jim Noble
Sieg Heil
46 posted on 11/03/2014 4:51:43 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Jim Noble

Tomorrow Americans get to speak at the polls.

LET IT BE LOUD!!!!


47 posted on 11/03/2014 4:52:49 AM PST by austinaero
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To: Jim Noble

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


48 posted on 11/03/2014 4:53:10 AM PST by stockpirate (This will stop when conservatives g on strike and demonstrate in the streets until we shut it down.)
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To: Jim Noble

Let’s just get rid of elections all together.

One nation
One Party
One Leader

NYT jumps the shark....again.


49 posted on 11/03/2014 4:55:03 AM PST by JPJones
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


50 posted on 11/03/2014 4:55:24 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Jim Noble

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.


51 posted on 11/03/2014 4:55:40 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Jim Noble

David and Jay, you are losers. Just losers.


52 posted on 11/03/2014 4:56:58 AM PST by polymuser ( Enough is enough.)
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To: Jim Noble

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


53 posted on 11/03/2014 4:57:07 AM PST by stockpirate (This will stop when conservatives go on strike and demonstrate in the streets until we shut it down.)
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To: JPJones

Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Obama


54 posted on 11/03/2014 4:57:50 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: goldstategop

There is no merit to your suggestion...


55 posted on 11/03/2014 4:58:17 AM PST by stockpirate (This will stop when conservatives go on strike and demonstrate in the streets until we shut it down.)
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"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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56 posted on 11/03/2014 4:58:57 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Jim Noble

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


57 posted on 11/03/2014 5:00:48 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: palmer

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.


58 posted on 11/03/2014 5:05:03 AM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: gusopol3
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.

59 posted on 11/03/2014 5:06:50 AM PST by samtheman
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To: cripplecreek

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


60 posted on 11/03/2014 5:11:13 AM PST by gasport (Will you children please close the damn door?)
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