What if they held an election
and no one came?
A poll of Minnesotans conducted by the StarTribune newspaper paints a pretty bleak picture of voter sentiment toward the front-runners foisted upon us by the establishment.
http://www.startribune.com/minnesotans-glum-about-the-future-trustworthi...
Consider this: Minnesota has the fifth-lowest unemployment rate in the U.S., and scores at or near the top in recent economic confidence surveys.
And 65% say the nation is heading in the wrong direction.
Opinions of the presidential front-runners -- and the negative impact a Clinton or Trump presidency is likely to have -- have Minnesotans decidedly glum about the future.
“Even those with good jobs, those with a good salary and benefits, are not sure they can keep it, due to downsizing, automation, offshoring,” said University of Minnesota sociology professor Phyllis Moen.
Gee, why would they think that? Maybe it's because only 37% think HRC is honest, compared to 34% who think the same of Trump. That Sanders guy? 76% believe he is trustworthy. Hell, even Kasich and Cruz are considered more trustworthy than Clinton and Trump.
Sanders, Cruz and Kasich are also considered to have better presidential skills than Clinton and Trump.
More than 1 in 8 Minnesotans expect their lives to be worse when the next president finishes his/her first term.
Inspirational.
Comments
For how many decades now have we had declining # of voters?
The nomination is not yet over - keep fighting for Bernie!
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
I think you're missing the point.
Yes, we've had decades of declining voter participation. And that was when the two front-runners weren't despised by two-thirds of voters.
There are a lot of ways to kill democracy. What we've witnessed this campaign season is beyond anything I imagined possible.
"The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles. -- Bob Dylan"
"Don't vote, it only encourages them" Graffiti, Oxford England
Still remember seeing those words scrawled in chalk on a wall in Oxford England, 1976. Had just moved there, and thought it was funny, then. Now. Hard to laugh at the thought.
Still see a "two'fer" possible: Trumps wins, destroys Republican party, and Criminal Clintons lose power in Democratic Party.
Holding out hope for Bernie Sanders, esp. after Nat Press Club presentation. But never underestimate the destructive power of the Clintons. David Brock, Lanny Davis, Sidney Blumenthal, John Podesta, they scum.
Front page review in Sunday NYTimes Book review yesterday of Thomas Frank's Listen, Liberal. We are still fighting the residue of the Al From, Clintons, Gore, Lieberman, Bayh, destruction of the Democratic Party from the 1980's. It's hung together on shared power/money, creating an oligarchy of neoliberals. Why do anything to contribute to their continued existence in power.
If they held an election and nobody came
The House would get together and pick someone.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
More than likely hold an auction.....
Candidate that sells or the highest amount wins.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Not much difference between what is going on now eh? nt
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
Didn't work out all that well for Didius Julianus...
Hillary Clinton 2016: I'm a proud progmoderate!
The HillnDon show is the ultimate vote-suppressor.
No need for retro tactics like voter ID; the oligarchs can just give America these candidates and sit back and chortle. Clinton and Trump could collaborate on a bipartisan bumper-sticker with the real message of that dreary GE "choice:"
I expect there'll be maybe seventeen votes cast nationwide; entire states will be 0-0. If Jill Stein can just drum up eighteen votes she's in!
Hillary Clinton 2016: I'm a proud progmoderate!
Bumper sticker
I've already seen the following pop up:
"Polls don't tell us how well a candidate is doing; Polls tell us how well the media is doing." ~ Me
Trump vs Hillary
Was listening to an interview about the difference between the two. Person thought Trump was more a business man and Hillary an ideolog. By propensity, business people can be bargained and reasoned with for the deal, ideologs not so much. Conclusion, Hillary is absolutely the most dangerous of the two. I would concur.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Don't you have to believe in something (besides yourself)
to be an ideolog(ue)? Clinton is no idealog(ue).
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It's Her Turn, silly peon
so we should all just give up and vote for Her Inevitability.
littlevoice, seriously considering leaving the top line blank on the November ballot if Sanders is not one of the names there...
"None of the Above"
Would win every election.
That's why that option isn't on the ballot.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
This is why we must continue to work for Bernie.
Otherwise, none of us will show up to vote for the establishment. Vote green, write-in, libertarian, but not establishment. If Bernie is not the nominee, America is in for a great surprise!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Agreed. I can say with certainty
I will not be voting for HRC or Trump.
"The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles. -- Bob Dylan"
Maybe we'd finally realize this representative system sucks
and it's time to get a new one.
One more reason why Hillary will lose a general election
If she can't get support in reliably blue states like Minnesota, she doesn't have a chance in the battleground states. People are really underestimating how well Jill Stein will do if she represents the only non-evil alternative.
Beware the bullshit factories.