In the November 2018 election, Democrats have a candidate in 87.9% of the legislative contests. This is a big increase for the Democratic Party. In 2016, it had candidates in 79.4% of the races. In 2014, it had 77.1%. In 2012, 78.9%.
The Republican Party also has more candidates for the legislature this year than in 2016. This year, Republican are in 79.2%. In 2016, 78.8%. In 2014, 79.6%. In 2012, 81.2%.
Only four state units of the major parties have candidates in fewer than half the districts: the Republican Parties of Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island; and the Democratic Party of Wyoming.
The Libertarians have 5.9% this year; 4.9% in 2016; 4.3% in 2014; and also 4.3% in 2012.
This year, there are independent candidates in 3.6% of the districts; in 2016, 3.9%.
PR — 100 percent for major parties.
Some states have the libertarians way down. Michigan for example only has 2 out of 14. I think the other third parties are down too, but there are two independents.
Michigan also has a SOcialist Equality Party candidate, which is a nice change. Granted, he has the label of independent, but it’s a start.
It’s incredibly difficult to get third parties like the Boston Tea Party headway, but when Ronald Reagan’s campaign manager Sue Hutchinson brought “tea parties” to Carmel, California in 1996, that changed everything for the Environmentalist Party.
Men, it’s about time that we give women the credit they deserve. They are invigorating democracy, we appreciate the help in building women’s voices in the orchestra’s music we use.
Typo, I attended the tea parties put on by Hutchinson in 1986, the year the Environmentalist Party had a better candidate than Clint.
Clint and Ronald were friends from Hollywood but I always thought it was Sue Hutchinson who brought the tea parties plan, probably not Clint nor Ronald, because it seemed sort of feminine – a tea party?
ALL the gerrymander regimes —
1/2 or less votes x 1/2 rigged packed/cracked gerrymander districts
= 1/4 or less CONTROL (with much, much worse primary math)
= Party HACK OLIGARCHS in Control — making most of the laws
— enforced by party HACK exec/judic officers in most regimes
Thus — govts of, by and for the minority rule OLIGARCHS
— too many brainwashed MORONS to count since 4 July 1776
— esp. in the MORON talking head cable TV shows — full of ZERO IQ *experts*.
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Count down to Civil WAR II — with major death and destruction
OR peace and sanity with
PR – legis
Nonpartisan App V – exec/judic
TOTAL Separation of Powers
me – I assumed this was state legislative candidates, of which the Michigan LP has 30 out of 150, or 20.0%. That compares to:
27/113 (23.9%) in 2016
9/148 (6.1%) in 2014
17/110 (15.4%) in 2012
The fact that Wyoming is the only state with less than half of the races with Democrat candidates is misleading. In politics, Wyoming isn’t all that different from Montana, a much more “Democrat friendly” western state. It’s just which jerseys the politicos wear.
Many Wyoming “Republicans” are actually Democrats who couldn’t get elected with “D” after their name, so they just changed their jersey to “R”. Kate Mead, the sister of the sitting governor, is a fine example. She is running as a Republican from Teton County for the state Senate. She recently defended why she has an “R” on her back when she is actually quite progressive on most issues, and running to the left of her Democrat opponent on several issues. She said “But you have to be a Republican in our Legislature to even be at the table.” She’s a novice politician so her slip up of truth telling is understandable.
In most state elections, party labels are part of the spectacle that keeps alive the charade that we actually have a choice and a voice in how we are governed. With minor exceptions here and there, we don’t.
Here’s a great snippet from a newspaper oped written in 1976 –
“Has it ever dawned on the editors that the attitudes of the 70 million projected non-voters may be very consistent with the reality that the concept of voting and electing representatives is basically dishonest and fraudulent. If voting could change anything it would be made illegal! There is no way any politicians can legally represent anyone because he was elected on a secret ballot by a small percentage of voters. He then claims to represent the people who voted against him and even those who wisely chose not to participate in such criminal activity.“
In the HIGH percent Donkey and Elephant regimes —
some Elephants and Donkeys obviously try to infiltrate the regimes as SPIES (esp. in primaries).
When detected (by their ANTI- party line votes/actions), they get MAJOR threats and even MAJOR primary opposition.
See the recent Kavanaugh vote and resulting purge threats on the non-conforming Senators.
BOTH rotted to the core gangs are playing for PERMANENT CONTROL of the USA regime — legis/exec/judic.
1933-2018 chaos — only a prelude to the REAL coming LEFT/RIGHT CONTROL FREAK TYRANTS.
ONLY ABOUT 10 *MARGINAL* STATES OF 50. SEE 2016 PREZ MATH.
ZERO NEW IN 6,000 PLUS YEARS — OF CONTROL FREAK TYRANTS — PRODUCING FOREIGN WARS AND CIVIL WARS.
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PR AND APPV
TOTAL SEPARATION OF POWERS
Don Wills – The Republicans have always had a Progressive faction, although Eisenhower might have been the last to actually call himself a “progressive conservative.” But the ideology carried on even though they dropped the progressive label. The earned income tax credit and the Equal Employment Opportunity Act was Nixon. Medicare Part D was Bush 2. Those were Progressive Republicans in the same mold as Hoover, Teddy Roosevelt, and the earlier Progressive Republicans.
Jim –
Yes, I understand about “centrist” Republicans like Teddy and Ike. I’m not talking about that type of Republican. I’m talking about actual House and Senate members in the Wyoming legislature that have previously been registered Democrats, some who’ve even run and lost as Democrats. The concept of one’s party label is almost completely meaningless in Wyoming – I suspect much more than any other state. The few Democrats in the legislature (12 out of 90) are almost all from Teton County (Jackson Hole, tree hugger heaven) and Albany County (home of the Univ. of Wyoming) because voters there think of themselves Democrats. And FWIW, a few of the Dems are actually less liberal than certain “centrist Republicans”. For example, our “centrist GOP” governor wouldn’t even sign the Stand Your Ground bill that came to his desk earlier this year, letting it become law without his signature. He’s a died in the wool RINO, as is his sister.
PR – legis — to show REAL politics — left v right —
even in a very small population State full of BIG ROCKS.