Amy Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report, here makes an original point…the more election laws, including campaign finance laws and laws about primaries, are altered to reduce the influence of the Republican and Democratic Parties, the more partisanship among the electorate seems to increase.
“The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”
The United Coalition has been using pure proportional representation (PPR) correctly for more than twenty-three consecutive years and PPR works fine for partisans and independents to pick a free speech word by their name. The respect and liberty to pick any word they wish. A free speech word to attract votes to their name is only a
beginning for free speech protection.
http://international-parliament.org/ucc.html
Amy Walter doesn’t come to this political-reform-makes-major-parties-less-nonpartisan place with clean hands, I mean it’s in the category of everything looks like a nail when you’re a hammer stuff. Like the original, Charlie Cook, her analysis is for groups of major party political junkies all the time every time at all forums. She has on ongoing need to compare election cycles with the ongoing logic of comparable situations of cycles past. The more durable the partisan game is the more relevant her work is because the trends that can be teased out of the otherwise durable institutions are of value but become meaningless in the face unambiguous rapid escape from traditional options by traditional players. A wholesale switch out of values connected to balloting voters would have her in the anachronism category.
ONE legislator elected per rigged Gerrymander Area = DARK AGE stuff.
— about 60 (repeat 60) percent accurate.
1/2 or less votes x 1/2 rigged gerrymander areas = 1/4 or less CONTROL —
– actual about 30 (repeat 30) percent CONTROL.
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PR — since 1840s – 1840s —
See multi-parties in Israel, Germany, New Zealand, etc etc
— about 95 percent accurate — about 47 percent CONTROL — BUT with FATAL *parliamentary* regimes of top hacks having both legis/exec powers.
Notice that the Cook Report doesn’t have any place for feedback. It’s sort of like the monologue, or, at best, controlled dialog that we get from the political establishment.
The CR folks look only at the marginal gerrymander districts (circa 47-53 percent winners) and claim some giant trends —
as if the winning HACKS got 100 percent of the gerrymander district votes
= really evil STUPID — par for the course of New Age JUNK math.
what a useful article!
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I think she’s committing the “post hoc ego propter hoc” fallacy. Just because two things happen at the same time, doesn’t mean that one causes the other.
When the hell have election laws, including campaign finance laws and laws about primaries, been altered to reduce the influence of the Republican and Democratic Parties?
The year was 1776, our forefathers set out to establish a free republic, free speech, voting and census, all of which to help nourish a peaceful revolution about equality and justice for all.
JO —
Pre-1776 colony gerrymanders (started shortly after ALL the adult males could NOT meet in person in each new colony) carried into the 1776 State regimes.
Many of the State regimes were tyrannical leading up to the Civil War —
try to speak/write against slavery in a slave State and get killed or merely be driven out of the State via death threats.