Posted on 08/30/2014 5:59:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
These “unfair” practices about elections....I’ve figured out at least two decades ago. It is a rigged system that we’ve simply accepted, and both parties manipulate the rules to their standards. I don’t think it relates to being lazy or dumb.
If you go and ask any local guy about this upcoming city council election....six out of ten will tell you that they didn’t even know local elections were coming up. Parties rely on this quietness theme and a marginal turn-out to keep things at the normal level.
If you did the local elections in a charged-up period of national politics...then you’d watch rapid turn-overs of long term politicians, which hurts your local lobbyists (yeah, even at the local level....you’ve got lobbyists). So it makes sense to keep the barrel as empty as possible on interest and the mass public knowing about the upcoming election for local folks.
For the 3.5 years that I lived in Arlington Virginia....they had two local elections and I doubt if more than twenty percent of the adult population ever showed up to vote. If you asked anyone who was on the county commission...roughly ninety-five percent would shake their heads. This is how the political forces (both parties) want the game to run.
Boo Hoo. Cry me a River. If the citizens of Ferguson don’t like the government they have, then they should get up and get to their voting precinct.
That’s a heck of a lot more effective than burning down Quick Trip and marching up and down the street.
As for the so called off cycle elections - the progressives wanted that for some reason. Now they want something else. Well tough. They made the bed, now let them sleep in it.
“Ferguson’s mayor is GOP.”
I know that’s why I used Romney and McCain as an
analogy. Sometimes democrats run as republicans to
fake change or to win in a curtain demographic area.
For example, McCain, Graham, Cornyn etc.. The GOP
really doesn’t care, most are RINO’s themselves anyway.
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