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US too disillusioned to vote for Dems?
Published: 07 January, 2010, 22:56
Edited: 14 January, 2010, 10:15
TAGS: Election, Obama, Politics, USA
Despite a certain degree of disillusionment in Obama’s promises, Democrats are unlikely to lose their majority in Congress in the November elections, said the political editor of the Washington Examiner, Chris Stirewalt.
“It is unlikely the Democrats would lose their majority – certainly in the Senate, where they’d have to lose 10 seats, which would be pretty far-fetched, and in the House, where they’d have to lose 40 seats; that seems unlikely. But losing a big chunk of your majority makes things difficult, as you have seen with the healthcare legislation, as you have seen with the global warming legislation – these have been the very difficult votes to pass,” he said.
“You need big numbers to be able to get legislation passed, and if Republicans can bite in, it will have an effect,” Stirewalt added.
07.01.2010, 21:56
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When will the US people finally realize that there is a one party system in the USA. It is the Money Party with two factions called: the democrats and the republicans. They stand for the same thing and implement the same policies although they may have a few individuals who have a more independent mind and stand for more progressive policies. This one party system has always governed the U.S.A. ever since the independence of the country from Britain.Imagine if there were two communist parties (which stood for the same principals and policies-perhaps with only tactical differences) in the former the Soviet Union, trading governance from time to time. Would American have then called the Soviet Union a "democratic state"? I doubt it very much. Well it is the same with the USA with the two essentially similar parties following the same dictates of capital. Where is the real democracy in America that they boast to the world about?
U. S.Citizens are indeed disillusioned and many democrats are saying that they will never vote for another democrat. This is due to the betrayal of the democrat voters in the last presidential election. They were lied to just to get their votes and then everything did an about face, with the billionaires and wall street thieves being given free reign over the tax payer's money. The sad thing is that the republican party is cut from the same corrupt mold that the democratic party is cut from. There is really no difference in the two parties. They both screw the working people and line the pockets of the rich crooks. There is "slim to none" chance that a third party will ever be able to break the "dictorial chains" imposed be the other two parties in order to have a fair chance to run. The billionaires just love it. They maintain total control over their POLITICAL WHORES in Washington by giving them donations {bribes?} and Washington never really changes {STAYS ROTTEN TO THE CORE}.
The US constitution ensures a duopoly by designating that elections be winner takes all. This means that in most cases if you don't vote for one of the main two parties your vote is irrelevant to the outcome, and therefore most people vote for their preference even if they deeply dislike both choices. Yet everyone, even the third parties who vehemently despite the two party system, seem/s to worship the constitution despite the fact it traps us in our present cycle. The US constitution was a ground breaking document, but it wasn't the end of the story. More modern democratic constitutions have bested the older designs, and the US will only fail to modernize the underlying framework of its electoral system at its own peril.