Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Comment preview: If the US could also stop having elections every two goddamn years, things would change too. Every Rep out there knows only one thing: fighting for the next election and this is because you have to spend a year preparing to fight not just your opponent but ....
Comment preview: Western countries count on elections happening in regular cycles. In America, if you don't like the president, you just wait four years and you'll get a chance at a new one. In parliamentary democracies, you don't even need to wait that long. Middle Eas ....
Comment preview: Let's go further... This case originated with a group of people who wanted to release a film about Hillary Clinton. They were denied the ability to do so because it was in an election year. However, during the last election cycle, Michael Moore released ....
Comment preview: Because it's not news. It's taking some facts and ignoring others to create a story that induces panic among a group of people who will be easily swayed without doing any factual research of their own. Below is my attempt at a similar story using the sam ....
Comment preview: You and the OP both totally miss the point of why someone would vote third-party. Voting third-party isn't something you do because you think the party you're voting for will actually win. It obviously won't. But then, unless you live in the half-dozen ....
Comment preview: Even that scientific answer includes a political dimension. As the Wikipedia article you've linked to says, the Julian period is calculated as "[15 (indiction cycle) 19 (Metonic cycle) 28 (Solar cycle) = 7980 years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian ....
Comment preview: Because they have paid a lot of money to get this through. I started looking up the bill supporters on OpenSecrets last night. I didn't even get through a third of them. Look who got them elected: *Lamar Smith (Bill Sponsor) - Top campaign contributing i ....
Comment preview: > Instead of the entirety of Wyoming's populace being ignored in a general election, now they have three electoral votes. Three may not be much, but it is equal to the state's representation in congress. And for those who say "They ignore Wyoming anyway ....
Comment preview: Congress doesn't operate on the rally of the "people". It operates on the districts and the state populations. and they are separate and individual. The current do nothing congress didn't get into power by luck. They have a strong rep at home and a gerryma ....
Comment preview: Oh heavens no. Unfortunately we're caught between in this really ugly place between a Democracy and a Republic. Europe seems to have sorted this shit out and went a little more democratic with it, but for our legislators it depends on the issue. On Nation ....
Comment preview: To clarify, actual Super PACs already have to disclose their donors. They are regulated under the FEC just like other 527 organizations. They file with and disclose their donors to the FEC at the same time the DCCC and NRSC does. The secret money everybo ....
Comment preview: This is why this presidential election is so important. There are 2-4 seats up for grabs in the next election cycle, and some of the justices cannot delay their retirement for much longer, 2016 at the latest. Whoever wins this election will have a (likely ....
Comment preview: Oh my fucking God. Those are INDIVIDUAL donations! Citigroup has over 240k employees! Do people seriously not realize how stupid they look when they roll these numbers out. Hillary's campaign funding from PACs is a small percentage of her entire haul. http ....
Comment preview: My dream is that Hillary (the obvious candidate) does the obvious thing and crushes the 2016 election, then gets re-elected in 2020. By that point, the GOP will have lost the popular vote in 7 out of the last 8 presidential elections. By 2024 when Hillary ....
Comment preview: Actually, the one I'm most interested in is this: "Multiple speakers repeated a claim that the Ryan/Romney Medicare plan would cost seniors $6,400 a year. That's a figure that applied to Ryan's 2011 budget plan, but his current proposal (the one Romney emb ....
Comment preview: I want to ask you a question. What do you think the election would have looked like if Rick Santorum was our nominee last time? The biggest problem with Republicans right now is our obsession with social issues: Abortion, birth control, marriage equality. ....
Comment preview: A majority of Americans support the drug war? For the first time ever last year a majority of Americans favor decriminalization. In Washington State we legalized marijuana by referendum in the last election cycle, only to have the Obama administration thre ....
Comment preview: No they didn't in 2000 or 2004 but they did after 1988. Clinton was a sea change in what a Democrat could be. A bunch of people say (and are more or less right) that Clinton couldn't have been elected as a republican twenty years before. Anyways the issue ....
Comment preview: It puts the next standoff right in front of the deadline for the next round of sequestration cuts. This is actually really smart from a Democratic perspective for two reasons: 1) The Republicans have lost a massive amount of ground politically on this stun ....
Comment preview: I disagree. I think having *career* politicians is one of the central problems of our democracy. Career politicians have to care more about their own future than the public they represent. That is why they can be bought and sold like sheep by special inter ....
Comment preview: I used to think like this, but look at the turnout figures for US presidential elections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_States_presidential_elections Literally every single one of these for at least the last hundred years has ha ....
Comment preview: Ladies and gentlemen of Australia, the only way we are going to break the stupid cycle of labor and liberals is to vote Greens. Do it, for once in your life, just try changing your mind. Voting labor next election isn't going to fix anything, its just anot ....
Comment preview: Well, he's an unapologetic socialist. I'm not here to argue that this is bad within itself; that is an entirely separate question. But the hard fact is that the socialist label is absolutely toxic in the United States. If he were, by some miracle, elected ....
Comment preview: The Pakistani people need to prosecute such scumbags, including Nawab Raisani. The requirement of having at least 16 years of education to participate in elections was enacted during Musharraf's era. It was meant to break the cycle of feudal landlords runn ....
Comment preview: Aaand here we have a winner. I've noticed the media seems to be much harsher on Obama than it is on Romney. If Romney were to overtake Obama and start posting consistent leads, you can bet your ass the pundits would be going on and on about how tenuous his ....
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