Misc This Means WAR

[ChrisAMB]

Looking back it seems wild to me that we only recently got early voting in SC. It was so nice to show up after work one day and there only be one other person in line. I remember waiting in very long lines years ago.

Years ago I worked campaigns for both R and D candidates state wide and one nationally and I can tell you I've never seen an atmosphere among the voting public like this. Anger is the best way to describe it. I still keep up with those folks and both sides seem to believe the polls may not fully capture the extent of what's coming tomorrow. I'll be very curious to see what happens in SC specifically. Some of the private polling only got the two senate candidates evenly split by weighting the polls to absurd levels like R+14. When one side is turning out like it's a presidential election year and the other side by all accounts is not, that's a recipe for results thought impossible not long ago.

Hope for a safe and smooth day for all the staff and volunteers working tomorrow. It feels like a thankless job a lot of the time.

 

[GaStorm]

100% on this post. We need a viable third party that is not subservient to a raving egomaniac like Donald Trump and one that is not influenced by elements that want to make America a Socialist nation. I've been a moderate for most of my life and this year's mid term elections have some of the most unappealing candidates I've ever seen. I don't really want either party controlling the White House or Congress anymore.

The elitists don't want a third party they want everyone to fight while they plan their agenda. I think a good percentage of people are in the middle at least those I have spoken to.

 

[ChrisAMB]

If I have to yes but I'd much rather have a strong middle of the road libertarian party take shape and kick both The Radical Republicans and left us liberals to the curb and make their own way forward without those Fringe aspects of the two parties

Libertarians are by definition not middle of the road.

More broadly though, what we need above all else (IMO) is to at very minimum uncap the House and increase the number of Representatives. It was last changed in 1929 when we had a population of around 122 million. Now we have about 350 million. I think with all our resources we can figure out office space and accommodations for at least 100 more. This would neuter gerrymandering on both sides. An even better plan would be to move fully towards proportional representation so that each state is represented by the full body of its electorate, not just the largest plurality. There's nothing in the Constitution that prevents it.

 

[Brent]

I early voted Thursday morning took 20 minutes total

But I'm trying to figure out what the point was really. It's not like the Democrats really have a shot here. Trump won by 34 points and took every county and OKC/Tulsa had been blue in prior elections

The guy who's gonna win can barely put sentences together so that's just great. He created a brand new county last week!

The most interesting ones around here is Kansas and Texas of course to see if they flip. Kansas did elect a Democratic governor a few years ago

 

[ChrisAMB]

The elitists don't want a third party they want everyone to fight while they plan their agenda. I think a good percentage of people are in the middle at least those I have spoken to.

A simple but effective hedge against partisan political parties is to ban closed primaries if the elections are administered with public funds. Currently all states fund primaries with tax dollars, but only 14 require open primaries.