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Corrupt Government Title: Obama calls for mandatory voting in U.S. President Obama, whose party was trounced in last year’s midterm election due to poor turnout among Democrats, endorsed the idea of mandatory voting Wednesday. “It would be transformative if everybody voted,” Mr. Obama said during a town- hall event in Cleveland. “That would counteract [campaign] money more than anything. If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.” Mr. Obama raised the subject during a discussion of curbing the influence of campaign donations in U.S. elections. The president said he had never discussed the idea publicly before, but said Australia and some other countries have compulsory voting. The president didn’t commit to pushing a mandatory voting initiative at the federal level but said, “that may end up being a better strategy in the short term” than finding a solution to curbing campaign donations. Australia is one of 11 nations worldwide with mandatory voting. Australians who fail to vote can be fined, or even jailed for repeatedly not casting a ballot. The president repeated his frequent complaint that Democrats tend to stay home in midterm elections. Last November, Republicans regained control of the Senate and added seats to their majority in the House despite Mr. Obama’s massive fundraising efforts for his party. “The people who tend not to vote are young, they’re lower income, they’re skewed more heavily towards immigrant groups and minority groups,” Mr. Obama said. “And they’re the folks who are scratching and climbing to get into the middle class and they’re working hard. There’s a reason why some folks try to keep them away from the polls. We should want to get them into the polls.” General election voter turnout for the 2014 midterms was just 36.4 percent, the lowest in any election cycle since World War II, according to the United States Election Project. In the presidential election year of 2012, about 58.2 percent of eligible voters went to the polls. Mr. Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney, 51.1 percent to 47.2 percent — a margin of about 5 million votes. But in House races nationwide last November, about 5 million more Republican voters cast ballots than Democratic voters. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Obama calls for mandatory voting in U.S. To synthesize an illusion of support and argument of uncontestable popular mandate by people marched to the polls and compelled to vote for high-sounding subversive demogogues and hucksters generated by a political machine. People don't vote if there is not a honorable and worthwhile candidate to support. They've been betrayed too many times.
#2. To: out damned spot (#0) “The people who tend not to vote are young, they’re lower income, they’re skewed more heavily towards immigrant groups and minority groups,” In other words, they're people who tend not to have a clue, due to youthful inexperience/naivete, or to the need to work long hours at jobs that don't involve a lot of reading and discussing current affairs, or to not having been here long enough and/or not understanding English well enough and/or not having set foot out of ethnic ghettos enough to understand much about important issues facing the country. Having more people from these categories actually voting, would not only result in more clueless and dishonest politicians getting elected. It would also result in a more clueless and dishonest array of politicians to choose from, as even more members of the dwindling pool of honest-with-a-clue people considering seeking elected office look at what's involved in selling themselves to an increasingly clueless pool of voters, and walk away in favor of much more attractive options for gainful employment and "making a difference".
#3. To: out damned spot (#0) “It would be transformative if everybody voted,” Yeah,just like it was in the old Soviet Union and in Nazi Germany. But the truth is that racist dummy would really like to make it illegal for educated and informed white people to vote,which making it mandatory for ignorant,illiterate,and even people who don't read,write,or speak English to vote. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) #4. To: out damned spot (#0) Australia is one of 11 nations worldwide with mandatory voting. There are quite a few more who have the mandatory voting law in their books but for whatever reason/s choose not to enforce it. “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.†#5. To: out damned spot (#0) General election voter turnout for the 2014 midterms was just 36.4 percent, the lowest in any election cycle since World War II, according to the United States Election Project. So is this because the voters are getting smarter or because they think it doesn't matter cause they're gonna get screwed no matter what?? “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.†#6. To: out damned spot (#0) Leave it to the statists . They identify the problem (low voter turnout ) ;and then suggest a repressive nannystate answer for it . Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.(Daniel Webster) #7. To: out damned spot (#0) "Obama calls for mandatory voting in U.S." Fine. But only those who can answer the questions on the basic U.S. Citizenship test. Here's 14 of the 100 questions: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/gallery/240108_citizenship_quiz/
#8. To: out damned spot (#0) Sure. Let's force these people to vote:
#9. To: misterwhite (#8) Sure. Let's force these people to vote: They already do, they consider it their civic duty to help elect dumbasses like Obola. “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.†Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest |
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