If I can those bastards to stop calling me, I would be happier. I am so fed up with politics I get pissed just thinking about it. Our two party system is shit. We need to get rid of all democrats and republicans. Start over with free thinking independents.
The 'vote early, vote often' thing is an old corrupt Chicago corrupt Democrat joke.
MA is a quiet island in a storm. We have a governor's race (gubenatorial) that has the Democrat up something like 25% - so we may have a Democratic governor for the first time since Dukakis in the 80's. And he's black. He's running against the current LT. Governor, a unpleasant woman whose job it was when running with Mitt Romney to be the attack dog, and so has branded herself as a bit of a harpy. She's getting crushed.
Other than that, we have no competetive statewide elections. There are some to the north and the south, but here it is quiet.
A 2 party system is bad, but a government entirely controlled by one party is far worse - as we have seen over the last 6 years.
Vote Democrat. At least we hold people accountable for their fuck ups.
Maybe it's the same all over, but Iowa is hilarious. Every tv ad is about how the other candidate is out touch with Iowan values. Often the worst insult is that you're 'out of the mainstream' or 'extreme'. For example, being critical things about Medicare Part D. During the last presidential election, the RNC ran a 'man-on-the-street' ad where a rural couple accused Howard Dean of being, among other things, a 'sushi-eating latte drinker'. That alone almost got me to support Dean.
Funny...I'm reading What's the Matter With Kansas? which demonstrates that, though politicians from "The Heartland" seem to have branded the midwest as some sort of idyllic refuge of common sense values and understated humility it has, in reality, a fairly recent history of fringe political crackpots and bloody upheaval.
And show me a politician that refers to "the way we do things in Iowa" or himself as "just a farm boy from Iowa" and I'll show you a guy from one of the richest families in the state.
T-Clog: I should also probably mention that, while I agree that the two-party system sucks, I think grouping "Republicans & Democrats" into the same pot is dangerous-very dangerous.
One of the two parties (Republicans) stands to gain from your potential apathy. And, while politicians of all stripes are susceptible to corruption and violating the public trust; their respective premises couldn't be more starkly different. One party suggests we're all in this together, and the other one is every man for himself.
To everybody feeling disenfranchised and to third party candidates everywhere I say: Stop letting Republicans win elections! If you want to do something to allow other points of view into the political debate, fight for instant runoff elections. It's on our ballot this time around in Minneapolis, and it's the way of the future. If a few thousand people could have ranked Nader #1, Gore #2, and Bush #8, Gore would be our president and there's good reason to believe there'd be a few tens of thousands of people still alive today that aren't.
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Who are you, Kenneth Blackwell?
If I can those bastards to stop calling me, I would be happier. I am so fed up with politics I get pissed just thinking about it. Our two party system is shit. We need to get rid of all democrats and republicans. Start over with free thinking independents.
The 'vote early, vote often' thing is an old corrupt Chicago corrupt Democrat joke.
MA is a quiet island in a storm. We have a governor's race (gubenatorial) that has the Democrat up something like 25% - so we may have a Democratic governor for the first time since Dukakis in the 80's. And he's black. He's running against the current LT. Governor, a unpleasant woman whose job it was when running with Mitt Romney to be the attack dog, and so has branded herself as a bit of a harpy. She's getting crushed.
Other than that, we have no competetive statewide elections. There are some to the north and the south, but here it is quiet.
A 2 party system is bad, but a government entirely controlled by one party is far worse - as we have seen over the last 6 years.
Vote Democrat. At least we hold people accountable for their fuck ups.
You speak true my friend! I don't want one party maybe more.
Maybe it's the same all over, but Iowa is hilarious. Every tv ad is about how the other candidate is out touch with Iowan values. Often the worst insult is that you're 'out of the mainstream' or 'extreme'. For example, being critical things about Medicare Part D. During the last presidential election, the RNC ran a 'man-on-the-street' ad where a rural couple accused Howard Dean of being, among other things, a 'sushi-eating latte drinker'. That alone almost got me to support Dean.
Funny...I'm reading What's the Matter With Kansas? which demonstrates that, though politicians from "The Heartland" seem to have branded the midwest as some sort of idyllic refuge of common sense values and understated humility it has, in reality, a fairly recent history of fringe political crackpots and bloody upheaval.
And show me a politician that refers to "the way we do things in Iowa" or himself as "just a farm boy from Iowa" and I'll show you a guy from one of the richest families in the state.
T-Clog: I should also probably mention that, while I agree that the two-party system sucks, I think grouping "Republicans & Democrats" into the same pot is dangerous-very dangerous.
One of the two parties (Republicans) stands to gain from your potential apathy. And, while politicians of all stripes are susceptible to corruption and violating the public trust; their respective premises couldn't be more starkly different. One party suggests we're all in this together, and the other one is every man for himself.
To everybody feeling disenfranchised and to third party candidates everywhere I say: Stop letting Republicans win elections! If you want to do something to allow other points of view into the political debate, fight for instant runoff elections. It's on our ballot this time around in Minneapolis, and it's the way of the future. If a few thousand people could have ranked Nader #1, Gore #2, and Bush #8, Gore would be our president and there's good reason to believe there'd be a few tens of thousands of people still alive today that aren't.
Amen to that.
and as the word verification and possible Tony The Tiger would say....
perhaps in Greece...
grrakia
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