Professor Larry Sabato has calculated that the Republican Party has nominees for 430 of the 435 U.S. House seats this year. This is a record for the Republican Party. Democrats this year have 410 nominees. The paper issue of Ballot Access News for September 1 will carry a chart showing how many U.S. House nominees each nationally-organized party has this year. It is not possible at this time to know how many minor party nominees will be on the ballot in the nation, because petitioning is still going on in many states.
If my calculation is correct; there will be 30 House races in which one “major party” has no “major party” competitor.
5 with no Republican & 25 with no Democrat
C’mon Democrats. 7% of seats with no Dem candidate. You can do better than that.
My Texas CD7 with no Dem candidate! You couldn’t find one single candidate as a name only to at least bleed the Republican’s bank account a little bit?
Although pretty conservative this district continues to trend Dem over the last 3-4 cycles. We’ll see what happens after re-districting.
About 380 of the 435 gerrymander U.S.A. Rep. districts are de facto ONE party *safe seats* = automatic party hack left/right extremists in 2011-2012.
Likely even fewer marginal seats with the super-computerized gerrymander programs in the 2012 gerrymander election using the 2002-2010 gerrymander results and the 2010 census stats.
Half the votes in half the gerrymander districts = about 25 percent ANTI-Democracy minority rule — way too difficult for the armies of MORON lawyers and judges to understand in gerrymander cases.
P.R. and App. V.
You’d think now would be the time for aspiring election system reformers to step forward and advocate
significant reforms like PR and approval voting instead of lame-a** stuff like IRV:
http://www.constitutionalrepublicparty.org/2010/07/16/23-say-u-s-government-has-the-consent-of-the-governed/
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a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 23% of voters nationwide believe the federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-two percent (62%) say it does not, and 15% are not sure.
These figures have barely budged since February.
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