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...while, honestly, I thought that the governor’s race was becoming so hopelessly boring that voter turnout would be low,” Winters said. “Now, it’s sort of like, aren’t you going to the game...
Will Americans take their anger into the voting booth this fall? There are few signs yet in the polls: Bush's job approval remains well within the healthy range, and voter preferences in congressional contests have barely budged. Says Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report: "We're not seeing any race change...
...Will Americans take their anger into the voting booth this fall? There are few signs yet in the polls: Bush's job approval remains well within the healthy range, and voter preferences in congressional contests have barely budged. Says Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report: "We're not seeing any race change...
...often, these supposedly populist voter initiatives are actually pushed by a particular special interest group. Wealthy individuals or issue advocacy organizations start a "grassroots" movement for their pet cause, dumping tons of money into the bottomless pit of campaigning. As initiatives have taken on new prominence, a cottage industry of campaign consultants, advertising firms and signature gathering groups has arisen. In 1998, California voters saw the most expensive initiative fight ever over a proposal to allow casinos on Indian reservations. Indian groups spent a lot of money pushing the idea, while Las Vegas casinos (which draw a lot of Californians...
...While all this voting may sound like democracy, it actually undermines the entire point of our representative government. America is a democratic republic. If representatives don't do what voters ask, they get booted out of office. But all these referenda (and their cousin, the voter initiative), while they seem like the very heart of populism, are really a way of bypassing the splendid democracy our founding fathers created...