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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
IIRC only like 1 in 3 people actually vote, so those statistics aren't that shocking.
Voter apathy is huge in the U.S.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Mar 7th 2019 at 8:36:23 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.55% of the voting age population votes,and 86% of registered voters vote.
Do you think the numbers have gone down?
Edited by Soban on Mar 7th 2019 at 10:40:07 AM
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So, 45% of the voting age population ISN’T VOTING. That is a huge goddamn issue moreso than the party issues you brought up. Although at this point, it’s pretty much impossible to deny that the Republican Party is actively destroying democratic norms and violating civil rights. That’s their entire stance.
An article listing some of the more prominent Trump scandals and what parallels, if any, exist between this and past presidential scandals.
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Quite correct, although Guantanamo Bay is predicated less on domestic security and more on the idea that the detainees are enemy combatants and thus not subject to civil justice. It depends on which reason will seem more convincing at the time, I guess.
Edited by Fighteer on Mar 7th 2019 at 11:21:42 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Manafort is set to be sentenced today. The prosecution wants between 19 and 25 years, which would likely be a life sentence for a 70 year old man whose health is apparently failing.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.His defense team really wants everyone to know that he's old and sick. It generates sympathy, supposedly. He wasn't too sick to commit bank fraud and launder tens of millions of dollars, or to betray his country for cash.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Plus, he's shown absolutely no signs of remorse as he has suborned his plea deal and cooperation agreement to continue lying and act as a mole for Trump's lawyers. He kept doing the things he was in trouble for while he was in trouble for them. He's demonstrated nothing but contempt for the rule of law. If anyone deserves to be hit with the maximum penalty, it's him.
Edited by Fighteer on Mar 7th 2019 at 12:20:15 PM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Stone is even worse. He hasn't just shown contempt for the justice system; he has outright threatened a judge. It feels like it's only a matter of time before his bail is revoked and he's a permanent guest in a federal prison.
Edited by Fighteer on Mar 7th 2019 at 12:23:39 PM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH, heh heh
) has ruled out a run for President.
Good, Ohio is getting redder but he clearly has a solution to winning there, and the Dems need every Senate seat they can get. And besides, he's still useful as a Midwest surrogate.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.So glad to hear that. I like Sherrod but he is definitely most helpful in the Senate, where he has done good work. Him making the primaries more crowded would achieve nothing (except the long shot of Ohioans getting to brag about yet another president from our state).
This signature was thumped to preserve the dignity of the moderators.While it's not US politics, it does relate to Ilhan Omar's comments regarding Israel.
Israel's Central Election Committee has given the go-ahead to far-right Jewish candidates to run while disqualifying the entry of an Arab party
that Netanyahu accused of supporting terrorism. Emphasis added.
Facing a corruption case and a merger of centrist parties that could defeat him, the conservative Netanyahu has allied with an ultra-nationalist list that includes the Jewish Power party to boost his chances.
The elections committee, made up of members of the outgoing parliament, struck down motions that had sought to bar as racist Jewish Power’s Michael Ben-Ari and Itamar Ben-Gvir, who are adherents of late anti-Arab rabbi Meir Kahane.
Left-wing party Meretz said it would appeal, along with center-left Labour, to the Supreme Court against the decision to let the Jewish Power candidates stand.
The committee also voted 17-10 to bar the joint Arab party Raam-Balad from the election in accordance with a motion filed by Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party. Likud says the Balad faction wants to eliminate Israel as a Jewish state and backs Palestinian and Lebanese militants.
Raam-Balad, a mix of Islamist and Arab nationalists, describes itself as a democratic movement opposed to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.
“We have a fierce argument with Zionism,” Mansour Abbas, who heads the Raam faction, told Reuters.
Raam-Balad now holds eight of parliament’s 120 seats. Candidates of other parties representing Israel’s 20 percent Arab minority remain eligible to run.

How many Americans truly hate the other political party? About 1 in 4.
In this case, 45 percent of Republicans hate the Democrats, and 41 percent of Democrats hate the Republicans. That's 26.5 percent of all registered voters, or about 53 million people in total.
That's not the final number, though. You also have some independents who hate one political party but don't necessarily see fit to join the opposite party. I asked Pew about this, and it sent over some numbers: 18 percent of independents see the GOP as a threat, and 19 percent see the Democratic Party as a threat. Applying that to the 34 percent of registered voters who describe themselves as independents, and there's another 25 million people who hate one side or another, for a grand total of 78 million — or 39 percent of all registered voters