The New York Times has this graphic, showing that only 9% of U.S. residents voted for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the 2016 major party nomination procedures (caucuses and presidential primaries). The graphic would be better, though, if it excluded children and non-citizens. Thanks to Political Wire for the link.
NONSTOP minority rule EXTREMISTS in the various regimes in the USA since 1776 – esp. party HACK nominees.
The USA is NOW ROTTING to death/civil WAR due to the accumulated time bomb effects of the various MAJOR defects in the entire political structure since 1776 — party hack primaries, caucuses and conventions, gerrymanders, appointed judges, etc. etc.
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NO primaries.
P.R. and NONPARTISAN App.V.
Will be about 140 million voters in Nov 2016.
Millions of adults do NOT vote since they can NOT even read election ballots
— due to the New Age rotted to the core *politically correct* publik skoooools.
1) Abolish all primaries unless the parties who participate in them are willing to fund the election costs 100%. It is abject theft to take tax dollars from voters not in either establishment party for these purposes.
2) Encourage parties to switch to either a caucus or convention system, again, self-funded. You don’t see tax dollars funneled to either the Libertarian, Green or Constitution parties to cover the expenses of their conventions, do you?
3) District election of Presidential Electors, and then place the actual names of the electors on the ballots instead of the party’s presidential nominee. These Elector candidates would then go out and campaign in their specific areas. The ballots would be no more crowded than they are today. But, there would be approx 535×5 = at least 2675 active candidates, plus any independents that secure PE district ballot access. Also, ballot access requirements would be much easier in these reduced size campaign areas.
Demo Rep I do not understand your post. The syntax you use makes no sense to me. What are you trying to say?
They leave out the fact that a growing number (over 40%, if I’m remembering right) of voters aren’t registered R or D and therefore cannot participate in the selection process in many (most?) states.
In the 30 states (plus DC) with registration by party, 72% of the voters are registered Democrats or Republicans. That 40% figure for independents that is constantly talked about is only from public opinion polls, not actual registration data.
Richard,
RE: “independents” – People need to be careful how they use that word. Do they mean it as someone unaffiliated with an establishment party, i.e., as an adjective, or someone affiliated with an Independent party, whether or not that party is actually active in their own state?
For example, here in West Virginia, because the Republicans and Democrats both allow voters unaffiliated with any of the recognized parties (Rep, Dem, Libertarian, Mountain/Green) to vote in their primary, the Secretary of State considers voters registered as either Unaffiliated (an actual registration form check box) OR “Other Party_______” as independent voters, EVEN IF the other party may be active in the state (such as the Constitution Party). Thus, any voter affiliated with a non-ballot qualified party is considered an independent voter even though they clearly are not.
At some point, the WVSOS is going to get their “body part” in a ringer. It would not surprise me if this is the case in many other states as well.
Mr. Stock —
The USA is now in T-O-T-A-L DANGER of having an ABSOLUTE MONARCHY-TYRANNY due to the well known *perfect storm* of accumulated ANTI-Democracy defects —
SCOTUS wiping out the States esp since 1936 – by a nonstop perversion of the general welfare and interstate commerce clause in Art. I, Sec. 8,
— building up each Prez into an all powerful MONSTER – i.e. undeclared wars, executive legislative orders, executive legislative foreign agreements, Prez veto power, Prez judge appointment power.
— along with the nonstop attacks by the media on the Congress and the States.
Thus the EVIL corrupt gerrymander math of the Electoral College –
Each Prez/VP gets elected ACTUALLY by about 30 percent of the total votes — in about half the States/DC — i.e. the magic 270 of 538 gerrymander Electoral College Votes (12th amdt).
The whole EVIL mess is like going over a 10 mile high cliff each 4 years inside a fully loaded cement truck.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.