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US Congressional Elections 2012: Scott Brown, Diviner of Ancestry!
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One, it's Constitutionally questionable (freedom of association).
Two, Louisiana almost elected an unrepentant member of the KKK to the governorship thanks to a similar system.
Three, the argument for it is a load of gooseshit (this ties into Argument One above.)
Seen plenty of anti-Tester ads, though.
Intelligent, hard-bitten moderates who prefer reasonable action and aren't caught up on ideology are fine. Idiot moderates who say "Well why don't we just give half the funding to the road" as a compromise between funding road/no road suck and should be violently destroyed.
I think even your idealized, non-existent moderates would be ineffectual, but sure.
They're non-existent in the halls of power because they can't get elected. There's a lot of us in the citizenry. Most of us don't vote, because we're leery of voting for the lesser of two evils and are kind of retarded, but we're out there!
Oh, they're all over the place. In fact, they even have their own party.
The Democratic Party.
Exactly, because the more common election system favors the crazies. I would think in a system like California's you'd get more situations where it's a sane moderate versus a batshit insane extremist from the same party. So the moderates could team-up with the other side to get the sane person elected.
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California's elections system, from what I understand, is pretty fucking terrible.
FTFY
That was my starting assumption. I'm just trying to figure out why something that seems to make sense in my head is actually a steaming pile of shit hidden behind a pretty facade.
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I think it's because, and I know this is a verboten thing to say, there is such a thing as too much democracy.
That's because it is a system that does work - California has instituted a two tier general election, similar to the system the French are currently using to elect their leader. What's problematic is that they're not honest about it. There's also what happened in LA too, to consider - I doubt you'll see many other elections where "vote for the crook" was a popular sentiment.
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/04/sabotage_the_new_gop_plan/
Of course as Angel pointed out, the CA system would be more effective if they didn't pass the first round off as a primary.
So long, senator with the absolute greatest name ever.
If Lugar gets primaried, does that put his seat within reach for the Democrats? I don't know what state he's in.
And Armey was in the House.
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He is from the generation that thinks you shouldn't filibuster every single piece of legislation ever, which is itself a small victory. He also voted to confirm Sotomayor and Kagan, which is a large part of the primary challenger's case against him.
I see them in little windows and banners in Youtube. If you have adblocker though you might not get those.
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Last I checked Donnelly was even with or leading Mourdock. I wouldn't call that too unlikely.
Once again, we have a case of Teapers cutting off the GOP nose to spite the party's face. If Mourdock wins (and lets face it, that's looking likely now), the GOP is going to have to spend real money and other resources to just keep the seat that they wouldn't have had to.
Good. gooooood.
I get home, and I see that I have a mailing from this same Vern Buchanan.
Interestingly enough, I notice it doesn't have his party listed on it.
I look up his website, and it doesn't show a party affiliation either.
Wikipedia reveals he is a Republican.
Sorry Vern, no vote for you. Your party has shown that you can't be responsible with the car keys.
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EDIT: NBC calls it, title updated again.
I think he was pretty much the last Republican in the Senate I had any respect for, so it makes sense the party loyalists couldn't stand having him around.
Mourdock will most likely beat Donnelly. No one's excited about Donnelly; the dude seriously stood up on the floor of the House and told everyone that we needed the BBA that the Republicans were pushing for during the debt-ceiling fight. The only hope he's got is if Lugar's supporters are either pissed enough to vote for him out of spite, or that they're so pissed about Mourdock that they stay home. Neither of those are likely to happen in IN. So, in back-to-back elections we'll have sent Dan I-Think-The-Line-Item-Veto-Is-Great-Lets-Bring-That-Back Coats BACK to the Senate, and we'll send this Tea Party backed asshole there too.
We (Hoosiers) deserve to be put in a very deep, very dark place in The Hole.