The republicans don't really want the White House

[LittlePinky82]

Christie is definitely the strongest candidate with appeal on both sides of the aisle. Rubio maybe. But neither of them have a snowballs chance in hell of getting the nod for the nomination. The republican party is being dominated by the loons.

It's a strange situation in other ways too. The democrats actually are gaining ground among the populace as our culture is becoming more and more dominated by the cities. But the right keeps gaining ground at the state level where they strategically manipulate the districts to keep their numbers up.

I found this article when researching a topic for a paper...

"In Wang's analysis, North Carolina is singled out as an especially egregious example of the voter-to-representative disconnect. Despite Democrats garnering 51 percent of the overall U.S. House vote in the state, Democrats ended up with only four out of 13 of the seats -- something Wang said happened in only 1 percent of his random simulations, meaning it was no accident."

http://www.southernstudies.org/2013/02/the-south-and-the-great-gerrymander-of-2012.html

So 51% vote democrat but they only win 24% of the seats. How is that a representative government?

One word: gerrymandering.

 

[Underhill]

One word: gerrymandering.

Aye, that was the topic of my paper...

 

[Underhill]

BTW, here's a test I've taken twice, once about five or so years ago, and the other about three weeks ago: https://www.politicalcompass.org/test . I took another similar test several years ago and pretty much ranked the same.

For the record, I place in the lower-left quadrant, which is "left"/"libertarian" with my closest association being Gandhi.

Me too...

 

[LittlePinky82]

Aye, that was the topic of my paper...

I started a thread on it if you'd like to talk about it.

 

[metis]

Me too...

I just knew there was a reason I really like you.